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State Secretary: Hungary will not allow migrant camps as long as Fidesz is in power

Neither is Hungary willing to participate in a quota system for distributing migrants within the EU, Bence Rétvári added.

State Secretary Bence Rétvári said on Facebook on Monday that Hungary will not allow migrant camps on its territory as long as Fidesz is in power.

This is the reason why Hungary has received a "gigantic, unfair and disproportionate" EU fine of 200 million euros and a daily penalty of 1 million euros, "because we are unwilling to submit to" the migration pact "and host illegal migrants en masse in migrant camps at our borders".

Neither is Hungary willing to participate in a quota system for distributing migrants within the EU, he added.

Hungary, he said, was determined to protect its borders "and it will do so".

Rétvári insisted that European People's Party leader Manfred Weber, who he called the "Brussels boss" of opposition Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar, "wants immigrants and he wants to build migrant camps".

Migrants, he added, "will be transported to Brussels" rather than hosted in Hungary.