• Hungarian forint
  • Budapest
  • Police news
  • HelloMagyar
EU: Hungarian border measures favouring the V4 countries are illegal and discriminatoryEU: Hungarian border measures favouring the V4 countries are illegal and discriminatoryEU: Hungarian border measures favouring the V4 countries are illegal and discriminatoryEU: Hungarian border measures favouring the V4 countries are illegal and discriminatory
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Important
  • Budapest-Vienna railway connection to be restored with many changes

  • Hungary’s first ever Islamic cemetery to be built near Budapest

Support us
Barbara Simon Barbara Simon · 02/09/2020
· Politics

EU: Hungarian border measures favouring the V4 countries are illegal and discriminatory

Hungary V4 Viktor Orbán

Photo: www.facebook.com/orbanviktor

Following the Hungarian government’s latest announcement exempting the V4 countries from the ban on entering the country, EU commissioner Didier Reynders is asking the leadership to revisit their decision.

On 1 September, Justice commissioner Didier Reynders posted on Twitter concerning the Hungarian government’s latest border protection measures. As published in an article by Portfolio,

the measures, banning all foreigners but the V4 residents from entering Hungary, are discriminatory and not in line with the fundamental principles of EU law.

As we wrote earlier, the Hungarian government have recently reintroduced their border protection measures, banning all foreigners – with a few exceptions – from entering the territory of Hungary as of 1 September. Hungarian citizens arriving from abroad are required to self-isolate for 14 days unless they present two negative tests.

1/2 -Today @YlvaJohansson and I are sending a letter to the Hungarian Government recalling the importance of the integrity of the Schengen area and of applying border measures in a non-discriminatory way to all EU citizens and residents. @EU_Commission @EU_Justice @EUHomeAffairs

— Didier Reynders (@dreynders) September 1, 2020

2/2 – Any measures that do not comply with those fundamental principles of EU law should of course be immediately retracted. We will be speaking to our respective Hungarian Ministerial counterparts shortly to request further information.@EU_Commission @EU_Justice @EUHomeAffairs

— Didier Reynders (@dreynders) September 1, 2020

Then on a conference in Bled, Slovenia, three days after the above announcement, the Czech prime minister asked Viktor Orbán “to allow Czech tourists who already have a holiday booked for September to enter Hungary”. Orbán did agree to this,

but since keeping the other two V4 countries (Poland and Slovakia) under the ban “would not have looked good”, the exemption was granted to the residents of these two countries, too.

Visitors coming from these three countries are only asked to present a negative test not older than five days.

As Portfolio writes, the above measures are mostly driven by political arguments rather than aimed at limiting the spread of the pandemic. Reynder is asking the Hungarian prime minister to revisit the actions taken, “recalling the importance of the integrity of the Schengen area and of applying border measures in a non-discriminatory way to all EU citizens and residents”.

Hungary V4 Viktor Orbán
Read alsoV4 citizens allowed into Hungary even after Sept 1 – here are the conditions

Source: portfolio.hu

If you would like to support the work of the Daily News Hungary staff and independent journalism,
please make a donation here
coronavirus Coronavirus in Hungary European Commission European Union Hungary border control Poland Slovakia The Czech Republic Viktor Orbán Visegrád Four
Share

Hot news

  • PHOTOS: Miss World Hungary to compete in this astonishing dress

  • Minister: Hungary to meet 2030 climate targets earlier

  • Complete overhaul of Hungarian public transport tickets coming, extending free travel

  • Chad president happy for Hungary’s help

  • Staggering: Vienna cheaper than Budapest

  • What happened today in Hungary? – 9 December, 2023

5 Comments

  1. Vedo says:
    02/09/2020 at 12:47

    Hmmm? Remember Schengen 2? Tables have turned….

  2. Anonymous says:
    02/09/2020 at 14:13

    we are ruled by a bunch of corrupt charlatans because there are millions of brainwashed people in this country

  3. DB says:
    02/09/2020 at 18:02

    Hungary is a sovereign nation and can make decisions on its own … it does not have to lick the boots (or elsewhere) of a group of bureaucrats to make decisions regarding its relations with neighboring countries.

  4. BELGIAN *IDIOTS says:
    02/09/2020 at 19:10

    Why is it that so many BELGIAN IDIOTS – who were (failed) politicians in their ‘previous lives’ – are suddenly ‘qualified’ to attain positions of importance within the European Union ?

    It is BAD ENOUGH that the European President (a total ‘goof’) is Belgian.

    Now it seems that the E.U. Justice Commissioner comes from the same country, which by the way has had NO functioning government for almost two years !

    How many other Belgian ‘no-hopers’ have been ‘rewarded’ with such high-paying but useless E.U. positions ?

    In reality, it gives more power to the ‘Pink Poodles’ (‘poofy-woofy’ /’ licky-licky’ bureaucrats) in Brussels !

  5. Bruce says:
    04/09/2020 at 12:34

    What the EU is concerned about is not that Hungary has closed the border, ,(remember Germany banned sales of medical equipment to other EU countries, and Malev was forced to close which Lufthansa and AirFrance are now receiving the govt cash that Malev was closed for receiving)

    What the EU is worried about is the close ties that the V4 countries are building.

    And another thing. Is it really worth paying this EU commissioner 200,000 euros per year to send letters to national govts?

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram

Must read

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.

Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.

.

Contact us

About us

Copyright rules

Privacy policy

Advertise with us

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V
PHOTOS: Miss World Hungary to compete in this astonishing dress

PHOTOS: Miss World Hungary to compete in this astonishing dress

Read More
Minister: Hungary to meet 2030 climate targets earlier

Minister: Hungary to meet 2030 climate targets earlier

Read More
Complete overhaul of Hungarian public transport tickets coming, extending free travel

Complete overhaul of Hungarian public transport tickets coming, extending free travel

Read More
Chad president happy for Hungary’s help

Chad president happy for Hungary’s help

Read More
Staggering: Vienna cheaper than Budapest

Staggering: Vienna cheaper than Budapest

Read More
What happened today in Hungary? – 9 December, 2023

What happened today in Hungary? – 9 December, 2023

Read More
Orbán face to face with ‘The Trump of the Tropics’

Orbán face to face with ‘The Trump of the Tropics’

Read More
Brave promise: government will curb deficit, debt despite higher expenses

Brave promise: government will curb deficit, debt despite higher expenses

Read More
PHOTOS, VIDEO: Time capsule found in dome of Hungarian church

PHOTOS, VIDEO: Time capsule found in dome of Hungarian church

Read More
You will never guess which issue will be Hungary’s priority during EU presidency

You will never guess which issue will be Hungary’s priority during EU presidency

Read More
  • 0
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
Have you read it?