Following a meeting of the Committee on Justice Affairs, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice Pál Völner announced that the first hearing in Luxembourg on the legal challenge to the mandatory relocation quota is expected to be held at the end of this year.
In an address to Parliament before the start of daily business on the opening day of the autumn session, Viktor Orbán said that the migrant quota referendum is not a party political matter, but a national cause, and that “we must not risk Hungary’s future”. In his address he mostly spoke about the national referendum on 2 October.
“The October referendum on the compulsory resettlement quota concerns the question of national sovereignty”, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said in London on Monday.
At a press conference in Budapest, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said that every effort must be made to counter terrorist threats triggered by migration, and one of the most important of these means is the migrant quota referendum on 2 October.
On Friday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told Hungarian television channel M1 that in recent weeks and months Western Europe’s internal security situation has deteriorated significantly: public security indicators are declining, and there is an increasing trend in assaults on women and acts or attempted acts of terrorism.
On Sunday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told Hungarian television channel M1 that the Hungarian and Serbian borders are both being protected intensively by the Romanian police, the border police and the security forces. Nevertheless a new migration route – from Serbia or Bulgaria towards Romania – must be prevented from developing.
In Kötcse, Somogy County, before an event entitled “Polgári Piknik” (Civil Picnic), Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told journalists that after the migrant quota referendum on 2 October a serious battle can be expected in Brussels over changes to European migration regulations.
“Europe must defend itself”, was the title of the interview Minister for National Economy Mihály Varga gave to German business daily Handelsblatt, published today.
“Hungary and Serbia are close strategic partners and this is something that would have been out of the question just a few years ago”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó stressed on Friday in Belgrade following talks with Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dačić and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić.
“It is the country, not the government, which has a stake in the 2 October referendum on the compulsory resettlement quota”, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Saturday in Kötcse.