The infringement procedure related to the refugee quotas is major exertion of pressure on the part of the European Commission, but this is a consequence of the fact that the distribution mechanism is not working, and most of the Member States failed to implement it, Justice Minister László Trócsányi said in answer to a journalist’s question at his press conference held in Budapest on 14 June 2017.
“Hungary is appealing the March ruling of the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights concerning two asylum seekers from Bangladesh”, the Ministry of Justice’s Parliamentary State Secretary informed Hungarian news agency MTI.
Important progress was made at the meeting of the Justice Ministers of EU Member States held on 8 June 2017 in Luxembourg.
“Hungary, together with Slovakia and with the support of Poland, took the liberty of attacking the refugee resettlement quota system at the European Court of Justice, and a ruling on the case is expected in the autumn”, Minister of Justice László Trócsányi said in an interview published in Wednesday’s edition on Russian economic daily Kommersant.
During a meeting with representatives of the Venice Commission on 12 May 2017, the Government delegation led by Minister of Justice László Trócsányi explained the contents of the proposed legislation on the transparency of non-governmental organisations point-by-point and according to a strictly legal interpretation.
“Even of the system for distributing asylum-seekers among EU member states according to a quota were to be realised, the consistent application of the system would result in an unlawful situation”, the Ministry of Justice’s Parliamentary State Secretary, Pál Völner said on Hungarian M1 television’s Thursday morning current affairs program.
Judges were open at the Wednesday hearing of the quota lawsuit, sought to understand the Hungarian position, and it is quite evident that they have dealt with the case in depth, Krisztián Kecsmár, Minister of State of the Justice Ministry stated after the hearing of the Hungarian and Slovak petition submitted against the EU quota scheme ended at the Court of Justice of the European Union on 10 May 2017.
Minister of Justice László Trócsányi met with his Norwegian counterpart Minister of Justice and Public Security Per-Willy Amundsen in Olso.
The Government of Hungary acknowledges the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly which initiates the reviewing by the Venice Commission of the law on the amendment of the national higher education legislation and the bill on the transparency of organisations funded from abroad.
Hungary will turn to the Grand Chamber on account of the decision adopted by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Bangladeshi immigrants Ilias and Ahmed versus Hungary, Pál Völner, Parliamentary State Secretary of the Justice Ministry said at the press conference held after the meeting of the Justice Committee of Parliament on 25 April 2017 in Budapest.