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...The German Social Democratic party under its former leader, Martin Schulz, would have been the ideal partner for Mr Macron....
...was a victory for illiberal governments such as Viktor Orban’s Hungary....
...Martin Schulz, the former Social Democrat leader, said he was behaving “like an extreme rightwing colonial officer”. Germany and the US have hit rocky patches before....
...The aim is to forge a common front on the Spitzenkandidat idea, and seize the initiative from EU leaders, much as Mr Juncker and his Socialist rival Martin Schulz managed in 2014....
...But Timmermans’ big weakness is eastern Europe where he is a divisive figure after leading Brussels’ charge over the rule of law in Poland and outspoken attacks on Hungary’s Viktor Orban....
...Bavaria’s prime minister has been attacked in Germany for hosting Viktor Orban, Hungary’s conservative-nationalist leader and a staunch opponent of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, at a party event...
...He asked why Horst Seehofer, leader of the CSU, Ms Merkel’s Bavarian ally, had hosted Viktor Orban, the autocratic president of Hungary and a fierce critic of the chancellor....
...The end of an era Wolfgang Münchau writes that the Franco-German honeymoon is over now that Martin Schulz is no longer leading the SPD....
...From Poland’s desire to criminalise claims that the country or any of its citizens might have been complicit in Nazi war crimes, to Viktor Orban’s attempts to rehabilitate Hungary’s fascist wartime leader...
...In Germany, Mr Macron is cultivating Mr Schulz and former Green MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit....
...You've seen that with Viktor Orban. You see the links with Nigel Farage and Steve Bannon. Le Pen hailed Trump....
...There is some less good news for Mr Schulz: one-third of young people do not know who he is....
...Schulz: neither Macron nor Corbyn Why is Germany’s Martin Schulz doing worse than his peers in Britain and France? An intelligent analysis of why Schulz is lagging behind peers on the left....
...share out the task of accommodating the huge wave of migrants that have arrived in the bloc in the past two years, Mr Babiš has sometimes drawn comparisons with Poland’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Hungary’s Viktor...
...Neil Buckley and Roman Olearchyk report: Viktor Medvedchuk has an unusually powerful godfather to his daughter: Vladimir Putin, the Russian president....
...Schulz refuses to dump European parliament Even with the prospect of a job as German foreign minister, Martin Schulz cannot bear to leave Brussels....
...Political wrangling is still hampering any prospect of serious implementation: Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, recently called a referendum on the law....
...But even if there was little substance during Mr Cameron’sBrussels swing, there was political theatre, including the warning by Martin Schulz, the European parliament president, that he could not guarantee...
...The precedent was set by Viktor Orban, the Hungarian premier, who in 2012 travelled to the parliament’s second home in Strasbourg to counter criticisms his government was becoming increasingly authoritarian...
...There he rubbed shoulders with Prince Charles; Schulz could hardly contain his smile....
...With encouragement from Martin Schulz, the parliament’s president, group leaders are trying to avoid tit-for-tat attacks, lest it blight the start of incoming commission of President Jean-Claude Juncker,...
...of the EPP when he became Conservative leader, the united front presented by EPP prime ministers ahead of the election began to crumble at the weekend, with one prominent EPP prime minister – Hungary’s Viktor...
...Among the prime ministers who are objecting to his candidacy are Britain’s David Cameron, Sweden’s Fredrik Reinfeldt and Hungary’s Viktor Orbán....
...asks Schulz? “They’re not?”...
...Martin Schulz, the German MEP who heads the Socialists in the European Parliament, took Orban to task over the carpet during the prime minister’s tumultuous visit to Strasbourg in January....
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