Hungary, Poland to Fight Migrant Resettlement Despite EU Court Order
“The real battle is only just beginning,” Hungary’s Foreign Minister tells the EU
Following an EU court decision ordering some eastern European countries to accept the migrant quotas, Hungary and Poland have vowed to fight on against the large-scale resettlement plan being pushed by the EU. The top EU court, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), ruled yesterday that all member states must take in a share of refugees who cross over into Europe.
The EU court’s ruling “jeopardizes the security and future of all of Europe,” said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“The real battle is only just beginning,” said the Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. “Hungary will be making use of all opportunities for legal redress to ensure that nobody can be relocated to Hungary against the wishes of the Hungarian people.”
The European Court of Justice rejected a lawsuit filed by Hungary and Slovakia to remain out of an EU plan to settle hundreds of thousands of migrants, mostly young fighting-age men from the Middle East and North Africa. Poland and the Czech Republic had officially backed the complaint.
Hungary is not alone in its defiance. It seems, Poland won’t be opening it borders either. Associated Press reported the Polish reaction:
Poland’s prime minister says her country will stick by its refusal to take in refugees even though the European Union’s top court is reasserting its right to force member states to accept asylum-seekers.
Szydlo says she isn’t surprised by the court’s decision, but that it “absolutely does not change the position of the Polish government with respect to migration policy.”
Following the ECJ ruling, EU Migration Czar, Dimitris Avramopoulos, announced the decision to take action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for their insubordination. The EU launched an “infringement procedure” against the three for failing relocate migrants.
According to Avramopoulos, European Commission — EU’s executive arms — will consider “the last step in the infringement procedure, to refer Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to the European Court of Justice.” Slovakia was excluded from the action as it “agreed to host a few refugees”, Associated Press confirmed.
Besides the threat of legal action, Merkel government has called for economic sanction against the country’s that refuse to open their borders and settle migrants. Merkel’s right-hand man, German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel, has has long been calling for punitive sanctions against Hungary and other EU states who refuse to “shoulder” Germany’s “burden” taking in migrants.
Eastern European countries, however, got support for their struggle from the UK politician and former UKIP leader Nigel Farage who warned the EU against relocating hundreds and thousands of migrants, mostly Muslim men, across the continent. “This won’t end well, as national security is at stake,” Farage said. After the successful Brexit vote, Farage has repeatedly urged Hungarian Prime Minister Orban and other European leaders to leave the Union.
Prime Minister Orban has strong backing at home for his tough stand against the migrant relocation plan. Last October, 98% of Hungarians voted “no” to an EU migrant quota in a national referendum.
As with Brexit vote, EU’s ruling elite continue to show their deep contempt for national borders, sovereignty or popular vote as they strong-arm member states into submission over their migrant plan. There is little hope for individual states to escape the migrant quagmire as long as they remain inside the EU. At this stage, cutting their ties with Brussels may be the only possible way to avoid this migrant disaster of EU’s own making.
Watch: EU’s top court dismisses Hungary and Slovakia case against taking in ‘asylum seekers’:
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If the EU treats the soverignty like this and keeps trying to erase them, these countries should invoke Article 50 and leave.
I wonder how long before one of them does.
The EU is going to be the downfall of the EU.
It has already happened.
The EU threat to Poland and other eastern European countries will not be military but financial. Eastern Europe still has significantly lower wage levels than Western Europe, yet education and skill levels are at least comparable; thus, many Western European companies have made major investments there.
BUT these investments are predicated on being able to move goods within the EU without tariffs or other barriers and, presumably, the EU bureaucracy is in a position to threaten that.
I think these Eastern European country leaders are being gentlemen and not telling the EU and EU courts what they really think. What is the EU court going to do, fine them? Kick them out of the EU? They sure as hell aren’t going to require Germany to invade and subdue.
what makes you so sure about that ?
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
angela merkel, as the figurehead of the eu self destruction league, joins the list of tyrants: hitler, stalin, mussolini
What a great group to be a member of !
She and obama will go down in history as the two most divisive leaders in modern times. Both have fundamentally changed not only their own countries but many of those in the free world. Right is wrong, black is white, male is female and common sense is a scarce commodity.
They’re not merely “migrants”. They are products of elective wars (i.e. social justice adventures), CAIR (catastrophic anthropogenic immigration reform), and survivors of Obama’s trail of tears.
That said, advocates for [color] diversity (i.e. denial of individual dignity including racists) and Planned Parenthood (i.e. denial of human evolution and right to life), should not have a voice in how moral and natural imperatives are reconciled. Dare I say it, they are neo-Nazis, and they seem blissfully ignorant of their principles.
Italy is complaining that France receives the oil from Obama’s elective war and regime change in Libya, while they are exploited by national democratic socialists who leverage gerrymandered districts and politics through emotional appeals.
War! What is it good for? Social justice adventures, CAIR, and natural resource redistribution.
The [color] diversity racists remind me of the Antifa facists. Blissfully unprincipled.
Two suggested answers to the EU court order,
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
“NUTS”
Just caught your comment. Oops. 😉
Unlike Trump’s effort to keep out anyone from places likely to ship us terrorists, efforts by eastern European countries to keep out dangerous foreigners are explicitly anti-Muslim. Although it wasn’t adequately reported in the Western press, the homicidal fury unleashed in Yugoslavia after Tito’s death was—not entirely, but certainly in the main—fueled by historical hatred of the Turks and modern suspicion of their Muslim-convert tax collectors in the Balkans.
The Poles and Hungarians, who both have plenty of historical warning of the dire necessity to keep Muslims out, will still have a problem even if they successfully resist the EU efforts to, essentially, destroy them. They have to close their borders up tight (with roadblocks, walls, and barbed wire—and machine guns, which they will certainly need), because the infection will try to get in—if not immediately, then in a few years when the rest of continental Europe succumbs.
In the meanwhile, the EU can exert considerable pressure. Poland in particular has large numbers of skilled laborers who move freely about Western Europe for work. If the EU tightens the screws on their mobility, the economic loss could be serious.
Merkel’s Germany: Triumph of the Multicultural Will.
Same as “Triumph of Mass Suicide – ala Jim Jones Style.”
The inherent impracticality of the EU’s aspirations to unified governance has been exposed, first by the economic inequities among EU member states, and, more recently, by virtue of this immigration fiasco that has been instigated by the stupefying ignorance, sanctimony and naivete of Merkel and Hollande.
Merkel now has the gall to threaten the Visegrad states for exercising their sovereign rights to protect their own borders and their citizens? Merkel’s posture represents the height of arrogance.