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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday that Hungary stood by its border protection practices and it would “not allow in anybody”.
Orbán told an international press conference that the government had weighed the possibilities following a decision by the Constitutional Court regarding a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that found Hungarian legislation on rules and practices in transit zones on the country’s border with Serbia violate EU rules on asylum and return.
“We will do nothing in the interest of changing our border defence practices. We will continue those practices exactly as we have until now, even if the European Court has told us to change them. We will not change them and we will not allow in anybody,” he said.
In the decision, taken earlier in December, the Constitutional Court confirmed that the government must defend Hungary’s constitutional identity; it stated that if European Union institutions do not exercise shared competencies effectively, the Hungarian authorities may exercise them; and it asserted that the relationship between migration and human dignity must be examined from the perspective of the country’s existing, historical population.
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