“It is clear from the statements of recent days that the ruling in the quota case is just the first step, because Brussels is moving up to the next level and is giving new impetus to the resettlement program”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference in Budapest.
According to Csaba Dömötör, while previous dialogue concerned the resettlement of a few thousand people on a voluntary and ad hoc basis, they are now talking about a mandatory and permanent system of distribution with no upper threshold.
“We might also state that the implementation of the ‘Soros plan’ has begun”, the State Secretary declared, adding that Brussels plans to bring immigrants into Europe every year and distribute them among the EU’s member states.
“The Hungarian Government rejects mandatory resettlement and will take action against it using all possible instruments”, Mr. Dömötör declared. “There can be no compromise in this, we are playing with an open hand”, he added.
“The quota system is unviable because it does not solve the problem, and in fact provides an open invitation to millions more immigrants. It is unfair, because it is attempting to override the spheres of competence of member states, and it is dangerous because it ignores the security risk that is absolutely obvious to everyone”, Mr. Dömötör explained.
“How can anyone believe that we can guarantee the transparency and security of the resettlement programmes when we know that 11 thousand fake Syrian passports have been found in the possession of ISIS?”, he asked.
The State Secretary recalled that according to the head of the European Parliament’s socialist group, the quota ruling forms a precedent, after which the development of a mandatory and permanent plan with no upper limit can now begin.
Speaking in an interview, the Italian President of the European Parliament spoke about raising the quotas, while the EC’s Commissioner for Migration made is clear that we are talking about a mandatory quota system in which member states are politically, legally and morally committed to take part”, Mr. Dömötör listed.
He also mentioned that candidate for German Chancellor Martin Schulz “has threatened to prevent countries that do not participate in the programme from benefiting from any EU financial plan”.
Based on the above, it is clear that “many people will be taking action in the interests of implementing the plan”, said the State Secretary, according to whom during the next few months we can count on legal contrivances and blackmail using EU funding and threats of infringement proceedings.
“There will be all manner of things aimed at increasing pressure on Hungary to change its standpoint with regard to its immigration policy”, he explained.
With regard to this, Mr. Dömötör made it clear that the Government will not bow to this pressure because it is worried for Europe, and for the continents culture and community.
The Government “is prepared to take on tough disputes” in the interests of Hungary’s security, he stated.
In reply to a question, the State Secretary confirmed that Hungary acknowledges the court ruling in the quota case, but “will never allow others to decide who we should live with and who we shouldn’t”.
”If this decision is made in Brussels, then Hungary will no longer be a free country”, he said, stressing however, that Hungary’s membership of the European Union is the national interest, and the result of the related referendum is binding for all Hungarian politicians.
We are committed to a strong Europe, and this is precisely why we voice our opinions “against mistaken and dangerous decisions”, the State Secretary said in reply to another question.
Also in reply to a question, Mr. Dömötör said the ball was now in the court of the European Commission, in view of the fact that the quota programme is “bleeding from a thousand wounds” because the countries that have undertaken to participate in the programme have only realised 25 percent of their quotas.
In reply to a question concerning a recent interview by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the State Secretary emphasised that it is also unacceptable from the perspective of the rule of law that while “leaders in Brussels originally spoke of voluntary participation”, they proceeded to “ram the decision on the mandatory resettlement of 1300 people down the throats of member states” with a qualified majority despite objections from Slovakia and Hungary, saying “you can go to court if you don’t like it”.
“In our view, what has really happened is that politics has raped the rule of law and European values”, he added.