Hungary’s nationalist prime minister reiterated his anti-immigration stances on Friday, saying it has a corrosive effect on EU law.
The migration will disintegrate the European Union, said on Friday hungarian prime ministerViktor Orbán, at the Cernobbio Forum (northern Italy), calling for new laws to stop its flow.
“If we look back from the period of 2014 until now, this period is a period of disintegration process of the European Union“.
The Hungarian nationalist leader, long criticized for his positions against immigrantswhom he has described as “poison” y “not necessary”made these comments when talking about his three priorities during the six-month Hungarian presidency of the EU: competitiveness, the war in Europe and migration.
Migration – like gender, employment and security – is an “existential issue” facing the UEhe stated. Reflecting on the Hungarian approach to illegal immigration and comparing it to Germany’s generous asylum policy, he said: “We never let them in.”
After his speech at the conference, Orbán he expanded on these statements by posting on social media platform X: “Let Hungary and others have an opt-out clause from the common migration policy.”
Brussels can keep them
Meanwhile, a senior Hungarian official echoed these comments, stating that the anti-immigration government is serious about implementing a plan to offer applicants asylum free one-way trips Brussels.
At a press conference in the capital, Budapest, the Secretary of State, Bence Rétvári, stated that the UE wants to force Hungary to allow the passage of “illegal immigrants” through its borders and said that the country “will offer these illegal immigrants, voluntarily and free of charge, one-way trips to Brussels”.
Rétvári said the transport would take place “after the application of the European procedure”, but did not detail what status the asylum seekers would have when transported. Rétvári made these statements next to a row of passenger buses with illuminated signs reading “Röszke-Brussels”, a route that would take migrants from Hungary’s southern border with Serbia to the EU headquarters in Belgium.
“If Brussels wants illegal immigrants, Brussels can have them,” he said. Almost verbatim, Rétvári echoed the words of the minister in charge of the president’s office, Gergely Gulyás, who declared at the end of August: “If Brussels wants migrants, it will have them.”
Las provocative proposals of sending migrants to the heart of the UE They were responding to a ruling of June European Court of Justicewhich sentenced Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros by breach persistently asylum rules of the bloc and a million more euros a day until it adapts its policies to community legislation.
The bloc opposes Budapest force people seeking international protection to go to the Hungarian embassies in Serbia or Ukraine to apply for a travel permit. This violates EU rules that oblige all member countries to have common procedures for granting asylum.
The Government of Orbán announced that will take legal action against the EU for the finesHe has also demanded compensation for the billions he says he has spent on border protection, including building in the municipality protected with barbed wire on its southern borders with Serbia and Croatia.
The UE ha frozen billions to his Government for non-compliance of the bloc’s rules on Rule of Law y democracyand some EU lawmakers have called for Hungary to be deprived of its voting rights on the bloc’s Executive Commission.
The Hungarian Government missed the first September deadline to pay the fine of 200 million of euros ordered by the European Court of Justice, which opens the way to a possible new conflict with Brussels.
