Hungary to block EU’s Africa-Pacific trade and development deal
Hungary cannot approve a new European Union trade and development accord with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries because it would bring more migrants into the bloc, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
Budapest’s refusal to ratify the accord with 79 countries, which was agreed by EU negotiators in December, would imperil years of talks to update the two-decade-old Cotonou development treaty with new provisions on areas including climate protection, human rights and migration.
The pledge to block the treaty is Budapest’s latest step in holding up EU policies ranging from China to Lebanon. On Tuesday, Hungary declined to support an EU call for a ceasefire in violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
“All of our proposals have been swept off the table, so we will surely not give our names to this agreement,” Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said of the Post-Cotonou deal.
“There is no need for fresh migration waves, especially now,” he told reporters in Brussels, referring to the impact of COVID-19, according to a news conference posted on his Facebook page.
The new treaty, called Post-Cotonou, must be ratified by all 27 EU states to take effect and, along with trade and aid, it includes ways for African, Caribbean and Pacific nations to take back migrants whose asylum applications have failed in the EU.
But Hungary’s nationalist prime minister Viktor Orbán, who rejects EU efforts to share out refugees across the bloc, has objected to some of the terms of the Post-Cotonou agreement, which aims to help the mostly former colonies of EU nations.
The treaty would allow for some legal migration for African, Caribbean and Pacific citizens to the EU through visas and family reunification, for instance.
Orbán told Reuters in an interview in September that Hungary did not want “a parallel society, or open society or a mixed-up culture,” that included Muslim migrants from non-EU countries.
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Orbanistan can keep acting like that mad man driving on the wrong carriageway of the highway and thinking that it is all other motorists on that track to be wrong, in the end nobody is forcing it to adopt a policy they do not want.
What I find pathetic is how little Petrusinus Siartus regularly tries to smuggle as a great deal every unimportant decision his illiberal regime makes part of its personal and absurd war against the EU ( by the way, the same EU towards which he and his boss Victorinus regularly stretch their begging hand … )
Does little Petrusinus really think that 44 / 45 s of EU citizens care so much about what 1 / 45 does? After all, that is Orbanistan in the EU, in terms of size and population.
Mario – the most ardent paid apologist for E.U. to ever write comments in ‘D.N.H.’ – misses the point (as always).
Furthermore, his continual misuse of Latin is not only irritating but shows total ignorance about Hungary and its people.
The democratically-elected Government of Hungary is opposed to any E.U.-concocted ‘treaty’ whereby more illegal MUSLIM migrants can enter Europe – via a ‘back passage’ opened up by certain (sexual) deviants in Brussels belonging to / working for the European Commission / Parliament.
Next year’s Hungarian elections will – yet again – overwhelmingly provide support for the (present) Fidesz Government’s actions.
There are already far too many useless “people” [such as ‘illegals’ and (sexual) ‘deviants] within Europe.
Whilst throwing all ‘illegals’ into an enormous pit full of starving wild pigs would be one solution, animal welfare activists might protest because the pigs could suffer from severe indigestion.
In the interest of all concerned – wild pigs and illegal MUSLIM migrants – it is a far more sensible solution to prevent the entry of further ‘illegals’ into Europe (via any ‘passage’).
As for the (sexual) ‘deviants’, those pathetic creatures should stay in Brussels or relocate to some other European ‘backwater’ – which might even extend them a welcome.
In case it hasn’t been made clear enough for mental midgets like Mario (plus ‘Anonymous’ and the witch doctor ‘Háviorvos’), both Hungary and Poland have made it perfectly obvious that such “people” – ‘illegals’ and (sexual) ‘deviants’ – will not be welcomed in those two sovereign nations (despite what uneducated commentators writing in ‘D.N.H.’ – and E.U. despots in Brussels – might so fervently desire).