Discussion of the mandatory migrant quota issue at the current EU summit had been postponed, and so Hungary has won time, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
In a video posted on his Facebook page on Friday morning, Orban said that the EU leaders had discussed a number of important and difficult questions, and at the beginning of the meeting the agenda items were the ones which are most important to Hungary: migration and immigration, Kormany.hu reports.
“I made it clear that we cannot accept any proposal for a mandatory migrant quota system”, he said. “Hungary rejects this, and for as long as I am Prime Minister, there is no possibility of any such agreement”, Orban added.
The PM said that on this matter the deciding confrontation will be in June, and “that is when we will need to show our mettle”.
