[Newsweek] What Happened to Hungary's Christian Democrats?

Fidesz’s stealthy expulsion from the European People’s Party (EPP) is an opportunity for Europe to change course.

Viktor Orbán arrives for the first day of an EU Summit in the Europa, the European Union Council headquarter on December 10, 2020, in Brussels, Belgium. EU leaders to finalise concessions to Poland and Hungary on Thursday on rule of law conditionality to unblock MFF and Recovery Plan (© Thierrty Monasse / Getty Images).

Thirty years seems too short a time for a motley crew of rock fanatics, samizdat muckrakers and young Christians to go from being darlings of the globalist-liberal zeitgeist to ostracized boogeymen. But that’s just what happened to Viktor Orbán’s “civic centrist” governing party, freshly expelled last week from the European Union’s largest parliamentary bloc, the European People’s Party (EEP) — now an empty shell for the former Christian-Democrat family of parties that blossomed across Germany, Italy and parts of the Benelux after 1945.

Continue reading the entire piece on Newsweek here.