This week, the EU countries agreed on a common migration policy.
This despite the fact that Hungary and Poland have protested against the proposal – which is now stirring up feelings in the two countries.
“Brussels raped Poland and Hungary,” writes Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on X.
On Wednesday, EU countries reached an agreement on the asylum and migration pact after a meeting at ambassadorial level. The last piece of the puzzle was the so-called crisis regulation, which deals with how EU countries may act in the event of sudden peaks in migration.
Now there is a common line to negotiate in the EU Parliament. The goal is to be able to approve the joint asylum and migration pact by the beginning of 2024 at the latest.
“Very gratifying that the crisis regulation has been adopted by the council. Now we can move forward in the negotiations between the Council, the Commission and the Parliament,” wrote Sweden’s Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) on X after the announcement from the Spanish Presidency.
Orbán: “Brussels raped Poland and Hungary”
Not everyone is equally happy with the agreement.
Hungary and Poland have been critical of the common migration policy and in connection with Friday’s informal summit with the EU countries in Granada, Spain, they expressed their dissatisfaction again.
“Brussels raped Poland and Hungary by forcing through the migration pact. So there will be no compromise on migration. Not today and not in the coming years. We will defend our borders from migrants and from the bureaucrats in Brussels,” writes Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on X.
– The plan is to let illegal immigrants into countries that do not want to accept them and to introduce cruel punishments. Poland strongly rejects this, says Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, according to the AFP news agency.
Both countries state that they will veto the proposals. At the same time, the countries that support the migration policy have a sufficient majority to say yes to the Council of Ministers’ opinion on the pact, according to TT.