“The Hungarian Government would like to have the issue of the mandatory relocation quota permanently removed from the agenda at the next EU summit”, Minister of State for Government Communication Bence Tuzson said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday evening current affairs programme.
According to the Minister of State, it would be good if the European Commission were capable of withdrawing the quota proposal. “This is also what Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would have liked to achieve at the current summit”, he added.
“This cannot be achieved now because there is a deadlock; the President of the Commission does not want to withdraw the proposal, but the Council cannot move forward either in this respect, meaning no decision has been made that is unfavourable to Hungary”, he said.
With relation to the fact that according to information acquired by Fidesz, paid provocateurs are planning to disrupt Sunday’s state commemoration of the 1956 Revolution, Mr. Tuzson said: It would be unworthy for the ceremony to be “whistled out”. “It is not a good thing – and especially on a jubilee anniversary – for someone to want to violate the dignity of a commemorative ceremony”, he added.
In reply to a question concerning what would happen if a conflict arose at the state event, the Minister of State said if such a situation were to occur it would be the responsibility of those who disrupted the ceremony.