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InfoMigrants By Emma Wallis Published on : 2021/02/24 The policy of migrant returns between EU countries is complex and creates "blurred lines," an expert in EU law and migration has told InfoMigrants. In the light of two recent cases of returns from Austria to Hungary, we decided to take a closer look at the subject. It started with two cases highlighted by the Hungarian Helsinki Committee (HHC) in December 2020 and January 2021. They were just two of several thousand cases HHC documented, but since they involved migrant returns fro...

Hungary opposes the EU's migration action plan: "Europe's Borders Must be Protected" Posted on The Court of Justice of the European Union, the EU's top court, has ruled that Hungary violated EU law when it prevented illegal immigrants from seeking asylum. The ruling paves the way for the European Commission, the EU's powerful administrative arm, to impose financial penalties over Hungary's restrictive immigration policies. The Hungarian government has vowed that it will not bow to pressure to jump aboard the EU's multicultural bandwagon. In its December 17 ruling, the court, informally known...

December 18, 2020 03:19:31 pm The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled Thursday that Hungary failed to fulfill its obligations under EU law after adopting legislation that restricts international protection offered to asylum seekers. The ruling comes after Hungary adopted legislation in 2015 that created transit zones at the Serbian-Hungarian border to apply asylum procedures and created the concept of a “crisis situation caused by mass immigration” in which derogation from general rules would be allowed. The European Commission subsequently brought an action against Hungary for failure ...

"Hungary will only be a Hungarian country as long as its borders remain intact. Therefore, not only our thousand-year-old statehood but also the future of our children obliges us to protect our borders." — Judit Varga, Hungarian Justice Minister, December 17, 2020. "While the Action Plan would give immigrants more rights and entitlements, it does not seem to take into consideration the security risks associated with mass migration." — Zoltán Kovács, spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, December 17, 2020. "If you are thinking that all of this sounds familiar, you're not ...

 Posted By Ruth King on December 18th, 2020 “Hungary will only be a Hungarian country as long as its borders remain intact. Therefore, not only our thousand-year-old statehood but also the future of our children obliges us to protect our borders.” — Judit Varga, Hungarian Justice Minister, December 17, 2020. “While the Action Plan would give immigrants more rights and entitlements, it does not seem to take into consideration the security risks associated with mass migration.” — Zoltán Kovács, spokesman for Hungarian Prime Minister Vi...