• Home
• Channel: Current Affairs
• Hungarian Official Slams Brussels 'Plan To Enfranchise Migrants'

Hungarian Official Slams Brussels 'Plan To Enfranchise Migrants'

• 13 Dec 2021 8:20 AM
• Hungary Matters

Under section 7 of the European Union’s integration and inclusion action plan, immigrants “should be given voting rights”, and they should be involved in political decision making, foreign affairs State Secretary Tamás Menczer said in a video published on Facebook on Saturday.

The Hungarian government’s position is that “the fate of Hungarians should be determined by Hungarians only”, he said adding that such decisions “must not be made by Brussels or migrants”.

Earlier in the week, Menczer slammed other components of the action plan, and voiced the government’s position that “migration should not be managed but stemmed, while aid should be provided where the problems arise”.


MTI Photo: Noémi Bruzák

• How does this content make you feel?
• I love it
• I like it
• I dislike it

• Brussels Migrants

XpatLoop Media Partner

Hungary Matters

Launched in January 2014, this newsletter published on week days covers 'everything you need to know about what’s going on in Hungary and beyond', according to its publisher the state media agency MTI.

Explore More Reports

Trump Will Be President Again, Claims Orbán - Why Western World Set for Sea Change

• 4 Nov 2024 11:39 AM

The Western world faces a sea change, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview to public radio on Sunday, arguing that a new "pro-peace, anti-migration and anti-gender" majority was emerging.



Brussels Wants to Plant Puppet Government in Hungary, Says Orbán at October 23 Speech

• 25 Oct 2024 9:20 AM

Brussels wants to oust Hungary's national government which pursues an independent policy which they find intolerable and plant a puppet government in the country, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a speech of commemoration in Budapest's Millenaris Park on Wednesday, marking the 68th anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom fight.



Orbán Meets Le Pen Again

• 23 Oct 2024 1:22 PM

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.



Magyar: 'Orban is Like the Captain of the Titanic'

• 21 Oct 2024 6:03 AM

Peter Magyar, the leader of the opposition Tisza party, on Friday said Prime Minister Viktor Orban was like the captain of the Titanic, "driving the ship into an iceberg then lying to the passengers about how he'll steer it in their interest."