European Migrant Crisis: Viktor Orban refuses Juncker’s common EU migration policy ideas

This month, the European Commission stepped up its battle against those states, namely Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland by beginning to take legal actions and drag them to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as they refused to submit to the EU migrant quota aimed at distributing millions of immigrants throughout the European Union, who have come to the continent since 2015 from war-torn regions in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia.

However, the threats of legal actions and stopping the EU funds to Hungary are doing little to persuade Hungary’s populist Prime Minister Viktor Orban as he said that there is no chance that he would agree to an EU-wide common immigration policy. Just days after euro-crats began legal proceedings against him, Viktor Orban reaffirmed his commitment to refusing refugees allocated through a euro quota system. He strongly hinted he and other Eastern European countries will reject any attempts to create a common European migration policy, such as the setting up of an EU asylum agency to determine applications and distribute refugees.

During a meeting with leaders of the Benelux countries in Warsaw yesterday, Mr. Orban said, “To say that there will be one integrated, single European migration policy, I do have my doubts and I do not see any chance for this……….Hungary is open to any negotiations to this end but we would like to continue to remain realists….Let us not create a European migration policy and this is the Hungarian position; as a result of which we will no longer be the kind of people, we are now………We would like to preserve what we are today, the kind of people that we are today.”

Mass immigration remains one of the biggest of issues in Europe and it is the one issue that threatens to deliver further cracks.