The EPP Group has adopted a decision on the conduct of MEP Tamas Deutsch during the Group meeting held on Wednesday, 16 December 2020. These principles lie at the core of the EPP Group, are non-negotiable, and all EPP Group Members should respect them. The reaction of the EPP Group came after the Hungarian MEP has compared the Group’s leader to the Gestapo. The EPP Group supports EPP leaders Jean Claude Juncker, Donald Tusk, Ursula von der Leyen and Manfred Weber in their defence of EPP values and particularly, in their defence of the Rule of Law conditionality. The EPP Group strongly condemns the statements made by MEP Tamas Deutsch which are in clear contradiction to European Christian Democracy and EPP values.