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EU has no legal right to set migrant quota: Hungarian parliament

Xinhua, November 3, 2015 Adjust font size:

Hungary's parliament adopted a resolution on Tuesday stating that the European Union's Commission did not have the legal right to establish a quota system that mandated the number of refugees each member country must take in.

The vote, 141 yeas to 27 nays, with 1 abstention, is in effect arguing that the Commission's decision violated the principle of subsidiarity, a principle that requires bottom-up instead of top-down decisions.

The resolution argues that the quota system was essentially a centralized order of procedure that was not coordinated with the member state. The Commission failed to verify that the quota system, if introduced, would be a more effective procedure or offer additional value.

According to Antal Rogan, the Minister in charge of the newly-formed Prime Minister's Cabinet, Hungary would be responsible for accepting 13,200 people a year if one million refugees/year were to enter the European Union.

If 1.2 million came, Hungary would have to take over 15,000 a year, he added. If the migration continues for the next five years as is predicted by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences the outcome would be an entire city's worth of refugees, he said.

Hungary plans to take the EU ruling to the European Court. Endit