Speaking on behalf of the S&D group in the European Parliament, Portugal’s Pedro Marques said on Tuesday 3 October that his political family was waiting to see how the SMER party, a member of the ‘Party of European Socialists’, would behave once it had formed a government in Slovakia, before deciding whether Robert Fico’s party could remain within the social democratic family.
“We’re not going to hang around for 10 years like the EPP did with Mr Orbán. There was a lot of...