Hungary pushes through with plan to bus illegal immigrants to Brussels

By kevinhughes // 2024-09-13

Mastodon

Parler

Gab

Copy

Hungary is proceeding with its plan to bus illegal immigrants to the European Union's capital of Brussels, Belgium. Hungarian Interior Ministry State Secretary Bence Retvari declared at a recent press conference that if the EU attempts to force Hungary to accept illegal immigrants, then those migrants will be handed one-way bus tickets directly to Brussels. Backdropped by a line of passenger buses with illuminated signs reading "Roszke-Brussels" – a route that would take immigrants from Hungary's southern border with Serbia to the EU headquarters in Belgium – Retvari stated the transport would be carried out "after the implementation of the European procedure," but did not describe what status the asylum seekers would have upon being transported. "If Brussels wants illegal migrants, Brussels can have them," Retvari said. The proposal to bus immigrants to Brussels came in answer to a June ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that ordered Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros for constantly breaking the bloc's rules for granting residency to asylum seekers. Hungary will be fined an additional one million euros ($1.1 million) per day until it brings its policies in alignment with EU law. The bloc disagrees with Budapest for requiring people seeking international protection to travel to Hungarian embassies in Serbia or Ukraine to apply for a travel permit, violating EU rules that compel all member nations to have common procedures for allowing asylum.

Hungary to file legal actions against EU over fines

The conservative and anti-migrant government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has stated it will file legal actions against the EU over the fines and has asked compensation for the billions of euros it spent on border protection along with the construction of fences protected by razor wire on its southern borders with Serbia and Croatia. Orban and his government currently hold the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union. Despite this, the EU is increasing its adversarial approach against Orban's anti-mass migration government. (Related: Hungary’s Orban slams current EU policies, calls for new leadership.) The EU has frozen billions in foreign aid for Hungary over Orban's supposed violations of the rule of law and the declining standards of democracy in the country. Some EU legislators have even petitioned for Hungary to be deprived of its voting rights in the bloc's main executive body, the European Commission. Hungary's government missed the first September deadline for paying the 200 million euro ($221.75 million) fine mandated by the ECJ, opening the way for another possible conflict with the EU. When asked about Hungary's plan to send migrants to Brussels, European Commission spokeswoman Anitta Hipper said that "it is unacceptable." "This action, if carried out, would be in clear breach of the EU law, but also it would be in clear breach of the principle of sincere and loyal cooperation, but also of mutual trust," Hipper said in an interview with media. "In addition, it will also undermine the security of the Schengen Area as a whole," Hipper added, referring to the 29-country zone where people and goods can cross borders without document checks. "We are also standing ready to use all our powers under the treaty to ensure that EU law is respected." NationalSecurity.news has more stories like this. Watch this video of Prime Minister Viktor Orban claiming he will not risk the safety of Hungary for migrants. This video is from the GalacticStorm channel on Brighteon.com.

CITIZENS NEWS

Hungary to file legal actions against EU over fines

More related stories: