Finance Minister: Hungary won’t accept migrant quotas

Hungary does not accept migrant quotas being forced on member states, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said in Brussels on Tuesday, calling it “harmful and unreasonable” that the European Union’s new asylum package would fine countries that refuse to accommodate migrants 20,000 euros per migrant.

Hungarian Finance Minister is against migrant quotas

Speaking to reporters after the Council of the EU approved all 10 legislative parts of the new migration and asylum pact, Varga said Hungary would join other member states in refusing to carry out the measures laid down in the pact, as it believes other methods were needed to handle migration.

“We should be taking the solutions to the [migrant] origin countries instead of importing the problem to Europe and sending invitations to migrants,” Varga said.

The minister said change was needed in the EU because Brussels was “relentless” when it came to the issue of migration.

He said the fence Hungary built on its southern border had so far cost taxpayers 700 billion forints (EUR 1.8bn), adding that he had turned to the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration, who still refused to approve support from the Commission for the fence.

Concerning the Council of the EU’s approval of a long-term 50 billion euro aid package for Ukraine, Varga said Hungary believed that the same regulations should apply to the utilisation of these resources that applied to EU funding in any other field.

He called for EU aid to be channelled to Transcarpathia too, as the region had been under increased pressure due to the war and displaced Ukrainians.

Varga said Ukraine had not fulfilled recommendations concerning human rights and national minorities, including those of the Venice Commission, that were tied to the funds, adding that Ukraine was expected to accept the EU’s fundamental values alongside the EU aid.

As regards the EU accession of the Western Balkan countries, Varga said their economic growth offered the bloc a chance to improve its competitiveness in relation to other continents.

He said foreign investment in the Western Balkan countries was constantly growing and household consumption was also picking up.

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8 Comments

Jose Hernandez says:

14/05/2024 at 20:26

Yeah yeah yeah. We already know that. But with arms wide open for Chinese migrants and chinese police, right? Because they are legally here.
mariavontheresa says:

14/05/2024 at 23:08

Yes, Chinese people are law abiding. This cannot be said about the uneducated lazy migrants. These migrants did not study, they were failures in their country and will be failures in EU. Hungary does not need more mouth to feed. Keep the vermin out of Hungary.
Michael Steiner says:

15/05/2024 at 07:16

Yes, Jose Hernandez, legal migrants, who contribute positively to our country’s economy, ARE welcome. Illegal aliens, who contribute nothing for at least two generations and who almost always bring violent crime and other disorder, are NOT. Hungary is doing an excellent job of protecting its borders from the millions who mean to invade us. Other E.U. countries are not, mostly by deliberate design, and Hungary should not have to suffer the consequence of their inaction. That’s pretty clear and simple to understand. I will NOT accept Budapest turning into a Paris, London, Brussels, Frankfurt, Stockholm, etc., with violent assault, rapes, no-go ghettos, riots, and so much more that cultural “enrichment” courtesy of the “New Europeans” invariably and provably brings. No how, no way. Csak a Fidesz, baby!
Jose Hernandez says:

15/05/2024 at 16:03

Of course, like all the chinese sellers in Józsefvárosi piac, surely they are law abiding as they are paying taxes for the products they sell, right? I know your country and i know the people that do all this kind of illegal things, you think Hungary is an example for the EU, Guess what? Its not, the law abiding people you say is not the people you believe it is. And believe me, i want migration control, i just dont believe the FIDESZ BS
mariavontheresa says:

15/05/2024 at 22:27

Hernandez, you cannot name a country that the illegal migration did not affect adversely after the 2015 disaster. Hungary spent billions to keep the vermin out of the country. If now the country would accept the uneducated, lazy, failures, all that money would have been wasted. There is a legal way to ask for refugee status, it is called application at Consulates and not thousands paid to smugglers. If these people are too dumb to do that, they should stay in their own homeland.
Jose Hernandez says:

16/05/2024 at 14:34

Dear Maria, i dont know what you are always mixing oranges with potatoes. Where did i write that i am supporting illegal immigration or quotas or however yiu want to call it? If you follow my comments, i dont criticize what stupid fidesz says, but i critize what they always do, and just like you, they are always watching one side of they coin. Its pure demagogia and the citizens can not see that this government is laughing at you. Now you are on you way to become the new Shanghai and you are not complaining about that. Enjoy the remaining freedom you have. I won’t last too long
mariavontheresa says:

16/05/2024 at 22:42

Hernandez are you referring to the Chinese Police. Yes, I found that disturbing. However, a friend in Hungary mentioned that the country does not and cannot recruit enough police officers to protect the border and enforce law and order. Fidesz does many things that I do not approve of, but I do not condemn all good that it has and is doing. After Gyuracsi, there was 11% unemployment and almost a bankrupt country. Then there was COVID. The Ukrainian was does not make things easier, with Hungarian minority living in Ukraine. When you consider all alternatives, most decisions made by FIDESZ make sense.

Hungary’s only aim should be to survive as a sovereign country for the next 1000 years and to improve the standard of living of the people.

Living in North America, when compare the fact that 26% of Americans are having problem putting food on the table, Hungarian government seems to be doing well.
Jose Hernandez says:

17/05/2024 at 14:52

Maria,fidesz is nor bringing Chinese police because of the lack of Hungarian police, its because, according to fidesz, to protect and help chinise tourist coming to Hungary. So your friend is not well informed. There are so many possible solutions and Orban takes the worst