Hungary Calls on EU to Rework Asylum Pact or Risk Its Collapse
- Hungary joins Netherlands in asking for opt-out, minister says
- EU asylum regulation under strain amid growing opposition
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One of the European Union’s strongest anti-immigration governments is warning that the bloc’s asylum policy is nearing a breaking point as opposition grows in other member states.
Barring an overhaul of common rules “we risk the collapse of the whole asylum and migration framework that we have in the European Union,” Hungary’s European affairs minister, Janos Boka told Bloomberg Television in an interview in Brussels on Tuesday ahead a meeting with fellow ministers.