Hungary's Prime Minister slammed efforts by E.U. leaders to make more
members of the 28-member bloc take in refugees from the Middle East,
Africa, and Asia, saying Monday that his country was the "black sheep"
of Europe's worst refugee crisis since the end of World War II.
Viktor Orban told a meeting of Hungarian diplomats on Monday that the
E.U.'s quotas, make no sense in a system where the free movement of
people would make it impossible to enforce.
"How is this going to work?" Orban asked rhetorically. "Has anyone thought this through?"
Orban spoke hours after Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann told
reporters that his country would begin phasing out emergency measures
that helped thousands of refugees make their way to Germany over the
weekend. Faymann said he had made the decision following what he called
"intensive talks" with Orban and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"We have always said this is an emergency situation in which we must
act quickly and humanely," said Faymann. "We have helped more than
12,000 people in an acute situation. Now we have to move step-by-step
away from emergency measures towards normality, in conformity with the
law and dignity." Faymann did not announce any timetable for when the
measures might be removed.
The crisis has exposed deep divisions in the E.U. over how to handle
the situation. Germany, which was expected to receive an estimated
800,000 refugees this year, said it was putting no limit on the number
displaced people it would accept. French President Francois Hollande
said Monday that his country would accept 24,000 refugees in an effort
to take some of the burden off his close ally, Merkel.source::fox news
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