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Key European Party's New Leader Blasts Autocrats in Group

Associated Press

   ZAGREB, CROATIA - The new president of the largest party in the
   European Parliament launched a scathing attack Wednesday against
   autocratic and populist leaderships within the group's ranks.

   Outgoing European Council President Donald Tusk spoke at the opening of
   the two-day congress in Croatia's capital, Zagreb, of the European
   People's Party, which elected him its new leader.

   Without mentioning Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban or other
   hard-line European leaders, Tusk said the EPP should fight against
   "political populists, manipulators and autocrats."

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