Most Hungarians Would Handle Migration At National Level
- 28 May 2015 9:00 AM
Seventy-five percent of Hungarians think that migration should be tackled by member states rather than at European Union level, according to a recent survey conducted by think-tank Századvég. Fully, 83% of respondents said they had heard about the system proposed by the EU which would allocate a quota for the number of asylum-seekers to be received by each member state, the survey showed.
Sixty-three percent of them, however, disagreed with the planned quota system, 10% was uncertain, whereas 27% supported it, the survey said.
Századvég conducted the survey by asking 1,000 adults over the phone. On Wednesday, the European Commission published a proposal on the relocation and resettlement under its Migration Agenda released two weeks ago.
Under an emergency relocation scheme planned to assist Italy and Greece, Hungary would be required to take 496 migrants from Italy and 331 from Greece.
Under a scheme designed for the resettlement of migrants from outside the EU in a member state, Hungary would be required to accept 307 people over the next 2 years.
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