Hungary Calls Referendum to Block EU Refugees as Balkans Fume
- EU has no right to impose refugee policy, Premier Orban says
- Balkan countries meet with Austrian officials to stem migrants
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called a national referendum to block a European Union plan to force member states to shelter refugees as Balkan countries agreed on measures with Austria to crimp the flow of migrants.
The EU has no right to impose its policy of refugee quotas on the bloc’s national parliaments, Orban told reporters in Budapest after a meeting where ministers agreed to call the referendum. No official date has been set for the vote.