Fidesz: Quota referendum could be wake-up call to Brussels

Budapest, August 10 (MTI) – Hungary’s Oct 2 referendum on the European Union’s planned migrant quotas could work as a wake-up call to Brussels and change their current unrealistic way of thinking, the ruling Fidesz party‘s group leader said late on Wednesday.

János Halász responded to a report in German daily Die Welt on statements by head of the European Parliament’s Budgetary Control Committee Inge Graessle, who is a CDU politician, and European Parliament Vice President Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, representing the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany. The politicians urged the EU to withdraw support from member countries that do not demonstrate solidarity in their refugee policy.

Halász told public news channel M1 that politicians who make such statements have lost touch with reality and have no idea what the arrival of 1.5 million migrants would mean in everyday life. These politicians “fail to understand this” and they focus on the issue of migrants rather than on Europe’s security.

The Oct 2 referendum will reveal whether the migrant policies of “the Brussels elite” are acceptable or not, Halász said. He expressed hope that other countries will hold similar popular votes.

Source: MTI