Hungary is weighing the conditions for a legal solution countering Brussels’ recent implementing decision on capacity for asylum procedures under the new migration pact, Bence Rétvári, a state secretary at the Interior Ministry, said on public radio on Sunday.
Under the EC’s implementing decision, Hungary would be responsible for processing the applications of over one-fourth of the illegal migrants entering the area of the European Union, Rétvári told Kossuth Radio. That number is “disproportionately large” and paves the way for “migrant ghettos”, he added.
Brussels is requiring Hungary to expand its capacity for processing applications and expects the country to quadruple it by 2028, he said.
He added that the government was sticking to the position it had held since 2015: illegal migrants must not be allowed to cross the EU frontier, in compliance with Hungarian and EU rules.
He noted that Hungary’s spending on border protection had come to 2 billion euros.
He said a 78 billion forint (EUR 200m) fine and a daily 1 million euro penalty Hungary had to pay under a ruling by the Court of Justice of the EU was “political pressure” to get Hungary to let in migrants.
Along with Hungary, EU member states in the region are, in general, opposed to allowing in masses of illegal migrants, he said. If Brussels really wants masses of migrants, Hungary is weighing the possibility of sending those who cross the Hungarian border directly to Brussels, he added.
He pointed to the negative economic impact of border checks within the EU’s passport-free Schengen zone established because the EU’s frontiers couldn’t be protected.
He said the recent murder of children in the UK’s Southport showed that even the children of migrants to the EU weren’t integrating.
He added that the EU could only implement one in ten returns of illegal migrants, and there was no guarantee those who were returned wouldn’t attempt to come back.
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Someone correct me if I’m wrong but when Hungary was joining that oh-so vaunted club called the E.U. nobody told us that:
1. we’d be forced to take in hundreds of thousands of hostile, violent, criminality-prone, illiterate, parasitic young men who came into Europe because other countries outright refuse to guard their borders and enforce their sovereignty, AND
2. we would be heavily penalized if we fail to comply.
E.U., go to hell.
@michaelsteiner – when you sign up for a treaty (or join a club …), it pays to read the fine print as to the representations, rights and responsibilities. And the sovereignty you will be relinquishing for all those billions upon billions (upon billions – it is A LOT) of EUROS being poured into Hungary (not HUF billions …) since we joined.
Of course the EU is not about giving and taking – it’s about collectively contributing to making Europe and the world a better place for us all. Although, don´t know if you recall what the late nineties to mid 2000s were like, but I cannot imagine where Hungary would be, if we had not joined the EU!
And last but not least – thank you for voicing your opinion. It is most definitely appreciated!