Pal Zsigmond Barna said in a post on Facebook that Hungary was prepared to do everything to make sure that it was spared "flawed and doomed EU migration legislation".

He noted that in a letter to Ylva Johansson, the EU home affairs commissioner, the Dutch government has asked for an exemption from EU asylum rules with the aim of introducing the strictest asylum policy in Europe.

With a view to curbing illegal migration as quickly as possible, the Hungarian government is joining the Netherlands and will take the necessary legal and administrative steps, he said.

Hungary, he added, was nevertheless committed to the Schengen system, and German border closures caused by poor immigration policy now imperilled free movement.

The state secretary hailed Hungary's model of protecting the external borders, assessing asylum applications beyond the border, dealing with human traffickers decisively, ensuring that deportations work, and sending aid to migration trouble spots.

Hungary has met its Schengen obligations and has spent more than two billion euros on border protection, helping Europe as a whole, he said, noting that Hungary had not received "a penny from Brussels" for doing so.

Also, Brussels was still "punishing Hungarians" by requiring Hungary to "set up a quota of thousands of migrants and migrant camps", he said.

Moreover, he called the EU court of justice's ruling requiring Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros as well as one million euros each day "unjust and outrageous".

Boka: Hungary begins talks with EC on CJEU's migration policy ruling

Hungary will not pay the fine imposed on it by the Court of Justice of the European Union, but has entered into talks in an attempt to resolve the situation, Janos Boka, the European affairs minister, said after a meeting of the European Parliament's constitutional committee (AFCO) in Strasbourg.

Speaking to Hungarian reporters in connection with a 200 million euro fine and a daily 1 million euro penalty Hungary has been ordered to pay by the CJEU for failing to comply with the EU's asylum regulations, Boka said Hungary has started talks on the matter with Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson.

The minister said he had made it clear at their talks that Hungary will not pay the fine.

"We agreed on the communication channels we'll be using to discuss the implementation of the ruling going forward," he said. "We've outlined a schedule according to which the talks will continue."

Hungary, Boka added, aimed to resolve the matter and have the daily 1 million euro penalty lifted.

Hungary's position on the implementation of the ruling derived from the political will expressed in a referendum, National Consultation surveys and elections. "This is a very firm and clear mandate for us," the minister said. "It is along this mandate that we have to continue the talks with the European Commission."

Commenting on the AFCO meeting held on the sidelines of a plenary session of the European Parliament, Boka said he had presented the priorities of the Hungarian EU presidency and briefed the committee's members on the progress that was expected during the Hungarian presidency in the matters that fall under their respective areas of competence.

Most of the questions he had received, however, had to do with the internal political situation in Hungary "and were open political attacks against Hungary and the Hungarian people", he said.

Regarding comments made at the hearing by German Green MEP Daniel Freund about Prime Minister Viktor Orban's visits to Moscow and Beijing this past summer being a violation of EU rules, Boka said the European public needed to be made aware that the MEP's remarks "do not correspond to reality".

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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