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The minister outlined the thought in response to a €200 million high quality issued in opposition to Hungary in June after the Court of Justice of the European Union dominated Budapest was ignoring EU asylum legal guidelines in addition to an earlier judgment in opposition to it.
Hungary, dominated for years by Orbán’s right-wing Fidesz party, has lengthy taken a tough line on asylum-seekers coming into the nation.
The Luxembourg court docket dominated in 2020 that Budapest didn’t adjust to the EU’s guidelines on the remedy of migrants by “unlawfully detaining” asylum-seekers and deporting them earlier than they might attraction the rejection of their functions.
The court docket ordered Hungary to alter its insurance policies, however Orbán’s authorities ignored the directive, a response the ECJ slammed in its June ruling as an “unprecedented and exceptionally severe breach of EU legislation.”
In addition to the €200 million high quality, Hungary should pay a further €1 million for every day it fails to adjust to the court docket’s ruling.
Budapest is now analyzing whether or not it could get well a few of these prices from the European Commission by submitting a lawsuit.
