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However, Hungary has also effectively barred future asylum applicants. On World Refugee Day, Isobel Ewing reported on displaced lives hanging in the balance.
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks with Marine Le Pen, the parliamentary group leader of the National Rally in the French Assembly, in Paris on Tuesday, Orban's press chief told MTI.
Hungary is seeking an exemption from the application of EU asylum and migration rules since, otherwise, "Brussels would also turn Hungary into a country of immigrants", the parliamentary state secretary of the EU affairs ministry said.
The Hungarian government will request that the European Union compensate the country for costs incurred in protecting the bloc's external borders, and is ready to sue the EU to that end, Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, told a regular press conference.
Thousands of Ukrainian refugees face eviction from Hungarian state-funded accommodation in a move by Budapest that human rights activists say could contravene EU law.
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