Hungary will not change its migration policy due to blackmail, Budapest says

YEREVAN, JUNE 13, ARMENPRESS. Hungary will not submit to financial blackmail from the EU court and will not change its migration policy, the head of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s Office, Gergely Gulyas, said, reports Political Lore.

The EU court in Luxembourg on Thursday sentenced Hungary to a fine of 200 million euros and a million euros daily for refusing to comply with previous court decisions related to violations of EU-wide rules on the reception of migrants.

“Hungary will not submit to financial blackmail and will not change its migration policy,” Guillas said at a government briefing.

According to him, “a normal court would never have made such a decision.” 

The politician called the ruling offensive, unfair and unacceptable and stressed that it “completely contradicts everything we think about European law, the Hungarian constitution, the protection of external borders and effective action to combat migration.”