A senior government official said Wednesday that Hungary will reject the EU’s migration solidarity mechanism and will not accept any migrants, according to Hungarian media.
Gergely Gulyas, head of Hungary's Prime Minister's Office, made the remarks at a press conference in Budapest, reiterating the right-wing government's long-standing opposition to EU migration policies.
On Monday, EU interior and justice ministers reached an agreement on the so-called solidarity mechanism, which includes a system for distributing migrants among EU member states.
Under the plan, countries unwilling to take in refugees may instead provide financial contributions or material support. The pact is expected to go into effect in June 2026.
"We will not implement the migration pact," Gulyas said. He added that the EU "has no authority to decide with whom Hungarians should live," and pointed to a 2016 referendum in which voters rejected what the government described as the EU's forced resettlement of migrants.
