Belgium’s top migration official on Monday criticized Hungary for threatening to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in retaliation against European Union policies and suggested they would be stopped at the border.
Hungary’s anti-immigrant government signalled Friday that it is serious about a plan to provide asylum-seekers free one-way travel to Brussels, a measure meant to pressure the European Commission into dropping heavy fines against the country for its restrictive asylum policies.
In June, the European Court of Justice ordered Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros ($216 million) for persistently breaking the bloc’s asylum rules, and an additional 1 million euros per day until it brings policies into line with EU law. The commission, the EU’s powerful executive branch, has its headquarters in the Belgian capital.
Nicole de Moor, Belgium's migration minister, said Hungary's threat “undermines solidarity and cooperation within the Union.
Yes, good idea. Let the 'refugees' camp on the steps of the European Parliament in Brussels, while it is still a little warm.
Fine, that would be somewhere NOT in Hungary, anyway. Germany, or France, or Netherlands, or even Luxembourg, although that's a very tiny country. Mind you, the latter has lots of hotels for the shameless to be hidden away.
The EU fines will build up, and then they'll try and bankrupt and force Hungary out. LOL Orban is a stubborn kind of guy, and it's all fake debt. And Hungarians are pissed off, because their steady cheap supply of Russian gas was just recently cut off by Elenskyyy, which they want back before Winter if possible.
So, eyes on this one, after Orban causes some havoc.