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Hungary to propose amendments to Dublin rules reform, UN migrant package
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Hungary will propose amendments to both the UN’s migration package and the draft reforms to the Dublin refugee system, making it clear that migration “is bad, poses risks and should be stopped”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after an informal meeting of European Union foreign ministers in Sofia on Thursday.
The various sides negotiating the UN’s draft document on migration and the changes to the Dublin rules have a special responsibility, Szijjártó told MTI by phone. If the view that migration is a good thing and something that should be encouraged takes hold, it could entice the roughly 15 million internal refugees and people in need of humanitarian aid in Europe’s neighbourhood to set off for the continent, the minister argued.
The proposals Hungary will put forward will also take a firm stance against mandatory automatic migrant resettlement quotas, Szijjártó said.