The Hungarian government does not intend to comply with the decision of the EU Supreme Court regarding a group of migrants who are not allowed out of the transit zone on the Hungarian-Serbian border.
On Tuesday, May 19, said George Bacondi, security adviser to Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
A European Court has examined the case of two Afghan and two Iranian migrants, who arrived in Hungary from Serbia at the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019 and applied for asylum from the Roshke transit zone. Budapest rejected their request, but in Serbia, migrants were also refused to accept. The court ruled that the migrants were “detained” in the transit zone, demanding that they be “immediately released”.
“The government does not make a decision of the EU Supreme Court <…> on transit zones,” the adviser to the Hungarian prime minister answered.
He emphasized that transit zones are part of the Hungarian border security system, and migrants arriving along the Balkan route are a “public health threat” amid the coronavirus pandemic. Bacondi called the decision of the court unacceptable “in the political sense.”