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EUR 200 Million Penalty for Protecting Hungarian Citizens and Borders

Dániel Deme 2024.06.13.

Instead of protecting its borders and their citizens from the endemic crime that illegal mass-migration brings, the European Commission seems to be hellbent on bankrupting Hungary in retaliation for the Orbán government’s opposition to their policies.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ordered Hungary to pay €200 million (around HUF 80 billion) for “failing to respect” EU law, including in the area of procedures for granting international protection and returning illegally staying non-EU nationals, reported Magyar Nemzet.

In a judgment handed down on Thursday, the European Union’s Luxembourg-based court also ordered Hungary to pay a penalty payment of €1 million for each day of delay in complying with the rules, for failing to comply with a judgment handed down in December 2020, by the court in relation to breaches of the provisions of the reception conditions directive and the return directive.

That failure, which consists in deliberately avoiding the application of a common EU policy as a whole, constitutes an unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU law.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán reacted to the ruling, calling it “outrageous and unacceptable. It seems that illegal migrants are more important to the Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens,” wrote the Prime Minister in his X post.

The Prime Minister’s Political Director, Balázs Orbán, described the decision on his social media page as unfair, undemocratic, unconstitutional and irresponsible.

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Via Magyar Nemzet; Featured Image: Facebook/Migrants Situation


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