Hungary's rejection of the EU's refugee quota shakes European unity !!

[link to europe.newsweek.com]


LESS THAN 40%

Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s prime minister, is not taking any chances.
“If we let the Muslims onto the continent to compete with us, they will outnumber us,” Orbán said last year. “It’s mathematics. And we don’t like it.” Many Hungarians agreed with him.

Now, as he rallies the country for a “no” vote in October, Orbán is also pushing back against another perceived threat to Hungary’s identity—the European Union. Under the terms of the European Council’s Emergency Response Mechanism, adopted last September, member states agreed to relocate 160,000 people under a quota system (those asylum seekers are currently living mainly in Greece and Italy).

Hungary was penciled in to take 1,294 refugees, but, along with Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Romania, it was hostile to the quota system from the start and voted against it. So far, Hungary has accepted no refugees under the plan. Instead, it has joined with Slovakia in challenging the plan in the European Court of Justice.