The European People's Party (EPP) does not at this stage intend to launch any disciplinary measure against the Fidesz Party of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, whose country is targeted by the opening of a so-called Article 7 procedure on respect of the rule of law.
But the question of the fundamental values on which the Christian Democrat party is based will nevertheless be posed at the annual EPP congress in Helsinki on 7-8 November.
"We cannot tell others to respect the rule of...