In answer to a question whether he was satisfied with the agreement reached by the EU heads of state and the government, Viktor Orbán said in Brussels on Friday that “one should not count one’s chickens before they are hatched”.

The Prime Minister reminded Hungarian journalists that the final phrasing is still to be determined, and the “question is whether everybody remembers it the same way”.

DownloadThe EU heads of state and the government agreed that member states would relocate 60,000 refugees amongst themselves in two years on a voluntary basis: two-thirds of them would be taken in from among those who had arrived in Italy and Greece, and 20,000 additional refugees fleeing from civil war conflicts would be taken in from outside the EU.

Hungary and Bulgaria, however, will be treated as special cases.

“The content of the text serves and protects the interests of the country”, the Prime Minister said.

(Prime Minister's Office)