The sentence is heavy. The Court of Justice of the European Union on Thursday ordered Hungary to pay a lump sum of 200 million euros and a penalty of one million euros per day of delay for not having complied with the EU asylum law.
The Court notes that Budapest has not executed one of its judgments taken in December 2020 which condemned Hungary for not having “respected the rules of Union law in matters, in particular, of procedures relating to the granting of international protection and the return of illegally staying third-country nationals.
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