The Hungarian President announced on Tuesday a referendum is going to take place on October 2 with the question of whether the country should accept any future European Union quota system for resettling refugees.
 
A national security advisor to the Hungarian Prime Minister, György Bakondi has revealed that only every eightieth asylum-seeker applying for refugee status this year in Hungary has been granted protection.
 
The Prime Minister Viktor Orban is pushing ahead with the referendum on the refugee relocation scheme, after taking an anti-immigrant stance since the refugee crisis escalated last year, when hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa crossed Hungary en route to richer northern Europe.
 
At that point, Prime Minister Orban's government erected a razor-wire fence on the country's southern border. Several other countries in southeastern Europe have also put up fences and have installed thermal cameras to unguarded points of entrance.
 
Along with Slovakia, Budapest has also launched a court challenge against last year's EU plan which will set quotas for each EU country to host a share of the refugees over two years. The referendum on Oct. 2 will ask Hungarians whether they would accept any permanent EU quota system beyond that. The EU is also discussing a change to asylum rules that would require member states to accept a quota of refugees or pay a penalty for them to be housed elsewhere.
 
President Janes Ader said in a statement posted on his office's website that the vote will be about the following question: “Do you want the European Union to be entitled to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?”The Hungarian President announced on Tuesday a referendum is going to take place on October 2 with the question of whether the country should accept any future European Union quota system for resettling refugees.
 
A national security advisor to the Hungarian Prime Minister, György Bakondi has revealed that only every eightieth asylum-seeker applying for refugee status this year in Hungary has been granted protection.
 
The Prime Minister Viktor Orban is pushing ahead with the referendum on the refugee relocation scheme, after taking an anti-immigrant stance since the refugee crisis escalated last year, when hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from the Middle East and Africa crossed Hungary en route to richer northern Europe.
 
At that point, Prime Minister Orban's government erected a razor-wire fence on the country's southern border. Several other countries in southeastern Europe have also put up fences and have installed thermal cameras to unguarded points of entrance.
 
Along with Slovakia, Budapest has also launched a court challenge against last year's EU plan which will set quotas for each EU country to host a share of the refugees over two years. The referendum on Oct. 2 will ask Hungarians whether they would accept any permanent EU quota system beyond that. The EU is also discussing a change to asylum rules that would require member states to accept a quota of refugees or pay a penalty for them to be housed elsewhere.
 
President Janes Ader said in a statement posted on his office's website that the vote will be about the following question: “Do you want the European Union to be entitled to prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary without the consent of parliament?”