23/10/2018 (Agence Europe) – The leader of the EPP Group, German national Manfred Weber, has criticised the European leaders who, on the one hand, reproach each other, and who on the other hand refuse to focus on concrete cases of non-respect of the rule of law in the EU. "Stop complaining (at) the EPP! We did our job (...) Now it's the turn of all EU leaders to discuss the Orbán case", he said on Tuesday 23 October, referring to the European Parliament's opening of the Article 7 procedure against Hungary (see EUROPE 12118). In Weber's view, French President Emmanuel Macron and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán take pleasure in playing enemies but then do not have the time to discuss the substance of the issue. And he points at the attitude of the social democrats, who reportedly balk at discussing respect of the rule of law in Romania, Slovakia and Malta. "The Maltese case is big point of concern", Weber said. (MB)