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EU Violating Hungary’s Sovereignty by Pushing for Migration, FM Szijjarto Says

© AP Photo / Santi PalaciosFILE - In this Thursday Aug. 27, 2015 file photo, migrants walk alongside railway tracks at Idomeni, northern Greece to cross the border and enter Macedonia. In the 28-nation EU, some countries have sought to block the unprecedented flow of migrants fleeing war or poverty in the Middle East and Africa. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)
FILE - In this Thursday Aug. 27, 2015 file photo, migrants walk alongside railway tracks at Idomeni, northern Greece to cross the border and enter Macedonia. In the 28-nation EU, some countries have sought to block the unprecedented flow of migrants fleeing war or poverty in the Middle East and Africa. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File) - Sputnik International, 1920, 26.09.2024
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UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - The European Union is seriously violating Hungary’s sovereignty by compelling them to let migrants into the country, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told RIA Novosti.
“The way Brussels is behaving now is a serious breach of our security and sovereignty, because they want us to let in people whom we don’t want to let in. We don’t need people who attack our police. We don’t need people in our country who attack our border guards, who cannot comply with our regulations, and who show no respect for our people, our way of life, or our laws,” Szijjarto said in an interview.
The ability for a country to protect its own borders and decide who is granted entry is a matter of sovereignty that no organization has the right to take away, Szijjarto said.
Earlier this year, the EU’s top court fined Hungary 200 million euros ($216 million) and imposed a daily one-million-euro penalty for failing to follow the bloc’s asylum laws. Hungarian PM Viktor Orban described the court’s decision as “outrageous and unacceptable”.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses the media on the occasion of a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Vice Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner at the Hungarian Embassy in Vienna, Austria, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. - Sputnik International, 1920, 10.12.2022
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