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Hungarian government calls on Portuguese EU presidency to reject migrant quotas
Justice Minister Judit Varga said Hungary’s standpoint on mandatory migrant quotas, in tandem with the Visegrad Group, remains the same as ever.
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PM Orbán: Hungary continues to oppose the migrant quota
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said Hungary continues to oppose the migrant quota, even if the European Commission's new migration and refugee package uses a different term for it.
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Guess who’s back with the idea of a mandatory quota system
As the establishment press in Sweden rarely allows non-mainstream opinions to be published, I have no other option but to respond to Swedish Left Party MEP Malin Björk’s concerned letter...
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Renew Europe migration proposal: Dusting off the old Soros Plan
One would think that, nearly five years after the peak of the migration crisis, Europe’s leading politicians would have finally admitted to the failure of their pro-migration policies.
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The Hungarian government continues to reject all EU migrant quota relocation proposals, says official
Gergely Gulyás said the issue of quotas, which he said had emerged repeatedly in recent weeks, was the “last desperate attempt” by the outgoing European Commission to paper over its failures. Hungary, he added, could only accept quotas for expelling migrants.
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Interior Minister: Distribution of migrants across Europe will not solve migration crisis
"The real issue here is whether Europe can defend its borders,” Pintér said. “Hungary did that and took in those who needed refuge, but those who do not, have no business in being in the European Union.”
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Hungary is against mandatory resettlement quotas, says spokesman
István Hollik said the introduction of migrant quotas once again threatens European cities and the Hungarian government maintains the position that the only acceptable quota is for sending back migrants.
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FM: Hungary rejects UN notion that migrants should have same access to healthcare as taxpayers
The Foreign Minister said UN plans to allow illegal migrants the same level of healthcare as those who have been honest taxpayers for decades is "unacceptable for Hungary".
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State Secretary: Hungary rejects introduction of voluntary or mandatory quota system in Europe
Zoltán Kovács said the first step is securing and protecting Europe’s land and maritime borders and repatriating anyone who has entered Europe illegally.
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The latest attempt to impose the quotas
The interior ministers of Germany, France, Italy, and Malta gathered yesterday in Malta to revive the mandatory migrant relocation scheme, the one that some thought had already died a painful death.
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FM: Hungary would not accept migrant quotas and considers border protection the highest priority
The Foreign Minister has said Europe is entering a phase in which “anti-migration” governments could be subject to increased pressure and face attempts to “cram mandatory migrant quotas down the throats of European countries”.
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Sie haben das Recht zu wissen: Brüssel und die endlose Geschichte der Migrantenquote
Am Montag hat die Europäische Kommission zu der an die ungarischen Bürger gerichtete Kommunikation der Regierung, wonach „jeder das Recht hat zu wissen was Brüssel vorhat” eine Stellung genommen. Die Reaktion der Kommission wurde online auf Ungarisch unter dem Titel „Fakten über die Migrationspolitik der EU” veröffentlicht und beinhaltet eine Illustration (wiederum in ungarischer Sprache), die sagt „Sie haben das Recht zu wissen, was Fakt und was Fiktion ist.”
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You have the right to know: Brussels and the never-ending story of the migrant quota
On Monday, the European Commission issued a response to the government’s communication to Hungarian citizens that “everyone has a right to know what Brussels is planning.” The Commission response was published online in Hungarian as “Facts about the EU’s migration policy” and features an illustration (again in Hungarian) that says “You also have a right to know what is fact and what is fiction.”