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Relations between Hungarian Prime Minister and Fidesz leader Viktor Orban and other EU partners have been nosediving for years.
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LONDON - The divide between the rich western part of Europe and the poorer former communist half of the continent remains the critical fault line in the European Union.
This gulf is set to grow wider on Wednesday (March 6), as leaders of Europe's centre-right political parties gather to discuss the possibility of expelling from their group the ruling party in Hungary, Fidesz.
