The European People’s Party (EPP) is scheduled to possibly vote on Tamás Deutsch’s expulsion from the party’s EP group on Wednesday after the Fidesz MEP made Gestapo and Stalinist comparisons following a comment made by Manfred Weber. According to the latest news, Deutsch’s expulsion could trigger some hard consequences as all the Fidesz-KDNP MEPs could leave the faction. Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister held talks with EU-sceptic, far-right EP-member parties last week. Tamás Deutsch’ comments, the topic of tomorrow’s potential vote, came amid an already tense EPP-Fidesz relationship (Fidesz’s membership is suspended in the party family, but not in the faction). In response to EPP faction leader Manfred Weber’s “if you have nothing to hide, you don’t have to be afraid [of the rule of law mechanism and checks],” the Fidesz founder two weeks ago said “I well remember that the Gestapo and the ÁVO [ÁVO/ÁVH was the dreadful Communist secret police in Hungary, operating until 1956] had the same slogan.” After experiencing harsh backlash, he claimed he had apologized to Manfred Weber the next day, but Austrian MEP (and EP vice-president) Othmar Karas launched a signature drive and initiative to exclude Deutsch from the EPP’s faction.