THE SYSTEM HAS FAILED: Hungary’s damning verdict on EU migrant regulations

Saturday, November 19, 2016
By Paul Martin

THE EU’s quota-based system for distributing and re-settling immigrants across Europe has failed, according to Hungarian politician Kristof Altusz.

By AGNES KEGL
Express.co.uk
Sat, Nov 19, 2016

Protecting the European Union’s external borders is now both essential for solving the migration crisis and keeping the EU together as a political entity, the Hungarian Deputy State Secretary for European and American Relations said.

After unsuccessful negotiations with Holland, Mr Altusz said: “Time has proven that the quota-based system determined by the EU for the distribution of 160,000 immigrants who are awaiting resettlement does not work.

“The system has failed”.

Mr Altusz said that during the course of negotiations Hungarian and Dutch positions on certain provisions of European refugee policy had not converged because Holland does not share the Hungarian Government’s opinion on the mandatory migrant quotas.

He said Hungary was keen that member nation states had final say over border and migrant issues and added: “The Dutch Foreign Ministry’s Director General for European Cooperation Maathijs van der Plas stressed that Holland has confidence in the success of the migration agreement between the European Union and Turkey.

“And in the quota system for distributing the 160,000 migrants among the member states.

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