Refugee policy : Hungary trips in the EU deliberations scandal

Before a meeting of representatives of the EU and the Arab League on Monday in Brussels, Hungary blocked a single line of Europeans in the refugee policy. In discussions at EU level in the last week, the blockade of Hungary caused an uproar. "We have become on Friday to witness a diplomatic amok run Hungary," said an EU Diplomat of the German press Agency.

On Monday, foreign Ministers of the EU and the Arab League in Brussels, under the presidency of the EU want to prepare-foreign policy representative, Federica Mogherini, a summit of the two sides on November 24. and 25. February is planned in the Egyptian Sharm el-Sheikh. In this case, should it go in Brussels to common challenges that both the EU and the Arab League are facing – terrorism, climate change, the situation of human rights and Migration.

On the last point, Orban's head of government Viktor Orban bother. The European External action service (EEAS) was submitted for the Arab-European summit in Sharm-el-Sheikh, a proposal for the final Declaration, according to which both the applicability of international Law in the field of migration as well as the UN-migration Pact should be mentioned. Hungary had already withdrawn last July from the migration Pact. With the Blockade, a more in-depth cooperation with the countries of the Arab League in the country when EU foreign Ministers meet on the last Friday, apparently alone.

Asselborn: Orban is like in his role

Luxembourg's foreign Minister Jean Asselborn criticised the actions of the Hungarian government's migration policy. "Hungary sees itself as the spearhead of the West against Islam - with barbed wire, a taboo the existence of refugees and zero solidarity within the European Union," he said to the daily mirror. "Orban is like in this role", he said further with a view to the negative attitude of the Hungarian heads of government in the case of a common EU asylum policy. "If shortly before the European elections, coalitions between Orban, Le Pen and Salvini come to pass, then you can't look away indifferent," he added.

last August, Orban and Italian Vice-Premier Matteo Salvini had a common approach in the European elections announced. Then Salvini and the Chairman of the extreme right-wing French "Rassemblement National", Marine Le Pen, the voters in their countries had promised a "Revolution in Europe".

Hungarian foreign Minister Szijjarto rejects the Position of the EU

the negative attitude of The Hungarian government towards a common stance in the EU and the North African and Arab States in migration policy is not surprising. In the last week, the Hungarian foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto had declared after a Meeting with his Eritrean counterpart Osman Saleh Mohammed, that his country, the Migration is the Position of the EU do not agree with that given the Situation on the African continent inevitable.

Earlier, the European court of justice (ECJ) had ruled in September 2017, that Hungary and Slovakia must participate in a redistribution of refugees. Both countries had complained against a decision of the EU interior Ministers, according to which of 120,000 refugees to the relief of Italy and Greece and in other EU-countries have to be accommodated on the basis of a fixed distribution key.

Before the European elections, Orban and Germany to attack France because of a migration policy

Although the refugee numbers are now compared to the years 2015 and 2016 in the European Union, meanwhile, again declined. There are, however, among the EU States because of the hostile attitude of Hungary and other Eastern European countries is still no consensus on how the so-called Dublin can be reformed System in the long term. The existing Dublin regulation stipulates that countries such as Italy and Greece, where refugees enter the bottom of the EU, the asylum procedures.