Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó also reacted to statements made over the weekend by pro-immigration politicians. “It doesn't matter what international pressure they attempt to put on Hungary, the Hungarian Government will not change its immigration policy, he said. The Government continues to view illegal immigration and the introduction of mandatory resettlement quotas as a bad and dangerous thing.

“We continue to stand by our legal standpoint according to which the decision of the European Court of Justice represents no obligation to Hungary, and especially does not impel it to accept illegal immigrants”, Mr. Szijjártó said.

We can see that any European politicians are worried about the rule of law and for illegal immigrants, but it is high time they began worrying about people who are already in Europe, for instance national minorities, he noted.

In rely to a question concerning the “lex Heineken” case, Mr. Szijjártó said the red star was an authoritarian symbol of dictatorship and that it is quite right that the European Commission should not force us to tolerate symbols of the dictatorship that has caused so much suffering during the course of our history on various trade symbols.

(MTI)