By Adam Woodward •
Updated: 23 Aug 2024 • 16:25 • 1 minute read
EU member state threatens to provide train tickets for refugees to travel directly to Brussels, sparking a massive outcry. A defiant minister of the country says ‘If Brussels wants migrants, they will get them.’
Hungary has escalated its argument with the European Union about the appropriate amount of migrants to welcome. The debate has been going on for a while. Hungary would transfer migrants to Brussels, according to a minister of Viktor Orban’s, if the EU keeps pressuring Budapest to take in more asylum seekers.
If Brussels wants more migrants, they can have them
At a news conference on Thursday, August 23, Gergely Gulyás remained uncompromising, telling reporters that ‘Brussels wants to force us to let migrants in at all costs. After the asylum procedure, we will take all migrants at the Hungarian border giving them the opportunity to be transported to Brussels voluntarily and free of charge,’ he said in response to Brussels demand. He continued by telling reporters that if Brussels wanted more migrants, he would send them to the European Parliament with a one-way train ticket so they could directly negotiate the terms of their care with the Commission.
Hungary is taking retaliatory action after Budapest was fined €200 million by the EU s highest court in June for persistently violating refugee regulations. Additionally, Hungary was mandated to pay an extra €1 million for every day that it disobeys the court s decision. Hungary, though, has resisted giving in. Mr. Orban called the court s ruling ‘outrageous and unacceptable’ at the time. ‘Illegal migrants are more important to the Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens,’ he said.
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This is the way. All Europeans should tell Brussels and the rest of their leadership to pound sand. The insanity of importing low IQ, violence-prone, uneducated, and unskilled, migrants that want to destroy the very cultures helping them cannot be overstated. They will impose their medieval ideology by force as soon as they reach a critical mass of population and it will mean civil war, again. Morons.
It s a common theme running through the EU at the moment, bureaucrats however do not wish to live or retire in such areas blighted by over population and use their positions to feather their nests for later.
The UK is a classic example of over population and over expend on immigration.
Im so glad someone is finally seeing it. This is why the EU sucks. They control your country and you have no right or youll get huge fines. who knowsnwhat elae they will do.
Im worried what Europe will look like for or kids this needs to stop! God made countries for a reason, nations for a reason leta leave it like that
and yes I agree the EU cares more for migrants then eu citizens disgraceful!
Also I would love to know why 95% of the migrants are men where are the women and children???? Ive seen it with my own eyes
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