The European Court of Justice rejects the appeal presented by Hungary and Slovakia against the system of redistribution of asylum seekers decided by the European Commission. The mechanism, conceived on the basis of quotas proportional to the reception capacities of the various countries, involves all EU members to avoid that the weight of the migration crisis weighs only on Italy and Greece.
The court, motivating its verdict, underlined that the decision to divide the migrants into quotas to be divided among the European countries is important and indispensable because "it contributes efficiently and respecting quota proportions to help countries, especially Italy and Greece, more crowded by the waves of migration”.
The sentence is a defeat for all the countries of the so-called "Viségrad Group" - which includes, in addition to Hungary and Slovakia, also the Czech Republic and Poland - united in refusing the quotas of migrants pertaining to them, although they are all countries that collect funds of cohesion from the EU.
Another halt to Hungary's anti-immigration policies came from the head of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, who responded in icy tones to Victor Orban's latest request. The Hungarian prime minister would like reimbursements for the defense of the EU's external borders from illegal immigration and Juncker replied that solidarity "is a two-lane road", not an "à-la-carte dish".
Juncker had declared that he was ready to evaluate the request for reimbursement of half of the approximately 800 million euros that Budapest had declared to have spent on border defence. In a letter sent yesterday to the conservative prime minister, the head of the EU executive however underlined that Budapest has already obtained significant sums for that task and has never played its part in the role of hospitality.
Furthermore, recently the EU and individual states such as Germany have also condemned the "inhuman" conditions in which illegal immigrants are detained and herded into Hungarian collection centres.
