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PM chief of staff: Top court strengthened Hungarian migration policy
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Friday’s ruling of Hungary’s Constitutional Court has bolstered the government’s migration policy and allows its full implementation, the Prime Minister’s chief of staff said.
Gergely Gulyás told a press conference on Friday that the Constitutional Court’s “clear and unequivocal” decision that Hungary may apply its own measures wherever the European Union has not fully worked out EU joint competences had strengthened the government’s position that Hungary “has the right to protect its borders independently of the EU”.
The government has a duty to protect Hungarians from the adverse effects of migration, he said. The Constitutional Court sees regulations pertaining to Hungary’s population and state system as national competences that have priority over EU regulations, he said.
The ruling sees the country’s historically evolving population and the culture of its ethnic minorities and the majority nation as assets that constitute integral parts of human dignity, Gulyás said.
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Asked if Hungary will implement the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (CJEU) ruling concerning its migration rules, Gulyás noted that the European Council, composed of the heads of state and government, had instructed the European Commission to set new rules for migration.
Gulyás is right!
Hungarian people will be protected ONLY as long as Fidesz-KDNP governs.
Makes sense, if a migrant wants to apply for asylum in Hungary and they are in Serbia or any other transit country. They should apply for asylum at the Hungarian embassy in those countries instead of trying to illegally enter through the borders.
@The Realist: In common with certain other countries, the Hungarian government policy is that for asylum to be claimed, the claim has to be made when someone is on Hungarian soil. Your comment is without merit. Hungarian embassies do not accept asylum claims.
@Katie you are mistaken as it is laid out in the article that “Applications for asylum can be submitted to the Hungarian embassy in the first safe country on the refugees’ route.”