Hungarian premier rejects EU migration decision as 'absurd'

Hungarian premier rejects EU migration decision as 'absurd'

'Latest Brusselian decision requires that from next July Hungary must either take migrants in from other European countries or pay for them,' says Viktor Orban - Anadolu Ajansı

Hungarian PM rejects new EU migrant quotas as 'absurd, unjust and outrageous'

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has vowed to defy the EU’s newly approved “Migration Pact”, denouncing it as an “outrageous” attempt to force member states to either accept relocated migrants or pay €20,000 for every refusal. The scheme, set to take effect next July, is intended to relieve pressure on frontline states such as Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Spain by distributing arrivals across the bloc or imposing financial penalties on those o…

Poland Rejects EU Migration Pact: A Defiant Stand That Exposes Deep Fractures in Europe

The European Union’s fragile unity on migration has been dealt a powerful blow as Poland and Hungary openly reject the bloc’s new Migration and Asylum Pact, triggering what analysts describe as one of the most serious intra-European confrontations of the past decade. With Warsaw refusing both mandatory migrant relocation and financial penalties, and Budapest vowing […] The post Poland Rejects EU Migration Pact: A Defiant Stand That Exposes Deep …