Hungary’s asylum policies navigating EU diplomacy amid legal challenges

Lailuma Sadid
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Brussels (The Brussels Morning Newspaper): As a diplomat Belgium advises the EU member states about how to promote stability and shared responsibilities among themselves,  this is due to its importance in Brussels and both national and international organizations.

 The main question is how much money Brussels can find to get Hungary out of hock.But the years between 1918 and 1945 were a time of great turbulence. No Hungarian alive at that time could forget them. Even today it seems some people can’t once during a presentation in Hong Kong, Orban talked of the EU as unfair a statement which didn’t go down well with Brussels one bit not what you would expect from someone aspiring to get into its top job. The European Commissioner for External Relations and Enlargement, Hans van Mierlo then made a formal complaint to the Hungarian government. Around 11,000 Hungarian Jews were employed at the plant and 3,200 of them 30 percent were killed. Laszlo Karsai presented Paulus with a four days worth of list of people who had worked at Csepel during October 1944. The Germans sort out their Jews Laszlo had paid 16,000 forint to Paulus for his efforts.

How will Hungary address EU Asylum obligations amid legal challenges?

Not with standing the 2020 judgment the Court maintains Hungary still has not fulfilled its obligations Hungarys failure in this regard runs counter to the whole idea of European countries working together on things and means that responsibilities are not equally shared according to the judgement. Finally from the mouth of Deputy Editor Mátyás Kohán who loves Mandiner. The Hungarian government expected a poor ruling but the level of the fine shocked them . Hungary regards the current practices in the EU asylum law as unnecessary such as allowing asylum seekers to first enter the territory of the EU before their application for asylum is being processed. And therefore this leads to the phenomenon of denied asylum applicants staying inside the EU because it becomes difficult to return them elsewhere. Hungary views this as a problem because it complicates both management of an individual’s asylum application and their repatriation once they have been refused leave to stay in Hungary for example. In a word Hungary finds that sending asylum seekers to Brussels is difficult. This is more like a move that has symbolic significance and hopes to quickly resolve between Hungary and the Commission a number of issues as it has been said.

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Lailuma Sadid is a former diplomat in the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Embassy to the kingdom of Belgium, in charge of NATO. She attended the NATO Training courses and speakers for the events at NATO H-Q in Brussels, and also in Nederland, Germany, Estonia, and Azerbaijan. Sadid has is a former Political Reporter for Pajhwok News Agency, covering the London, Conference in 2006 and Lisbon summit in 2010.
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