EU has taken issue with Hungary's unusually rigid asylum system, and asked the bloc's top court to fine Budapest.
Hungary's government has taken a hard line on people entering the country since well over 1 million people entered Europe in 2015. / Photo: AP Archive
Speaking at a news conference in Budapest on Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, criticised a June ruling by the European Court of Justice that ordered Hungary to pay a fine of $216 million for persistently breaking the bloc's asylum rules, and an additional 1 million euros per day until it brings its policies into line with EU law.
He said that if the EU continues to force regulations on Hungary that"does not make it possible to detain migrants at the border", his country will offer every migrant"transport to Brussels free of charge". The country built fences protected by razor wire on its southern borders with Serbia and Croatia and a pair of transit zones for holding asylum seekers on its border with Serbia. Those transit zones have since closed.
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