{"id":223493,"date":"2025-12-09T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223493\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T10:17:11","slug":"rebellion-begins-orban-rejects-migration-pact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/223493\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rebellion begins!” Orban rejects Migration Pact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has said that his country will not implement the measures of the EU Migration Pact even as a key meeting of ministers in Brussels today signed off on elements of the agreement.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hungary, along with Slovakia and Poland have strongly opposed the Pact, with Orb\u00e1n previously saying that \u201cas long as Hungary has a patriotic government, we will not implement the Migration Pact\u201d.<\/p>\n

Today, after the meeting in Brussels, the Hungarian PM posted on X that the EU was attempting to \u201cforce\u201d his country to take in more migrants \u2013 or pay to avoid that. \u201cThe rebellion begins,\u201d he posted on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith today\u2019s decision, Brussels is attempting to force Hungary to pay even more or take migrants in. This is unacceptable. Hungary already spends enough to protect the Union\u2019s external border.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not take a single migrant in, and we will not pay for others\u2019 migrants. Hungary will not implement the measures of the Migration Pact. The rebellion begins!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n\u2019s government has strongly opposed the idea of a solidarity mechanism, where countries which receive a surge in the number of migrants are aided by other member states who either take a share of migrants or contribute to a common fund.<\/p>\n

As reported on Gript earlier today, Ireland favours providing<\/a> funding to Mediterranean countries during migration surges instead of accepting additional arrivals from those regions.<\/p>\n

The country will opt that, in situations where so-called \u201cfrontline states\u201d such as Greece and Italy begin to receive significant numbers of migrants and asylum seekers, Ireland would contribute to a common migration fund under a solidarity mechanism, rather than taking a certain share of the migrants, which was the other option.<\/p>\n

The EU Migration Pact was first proposed around the time of the 2015 Migrant Crisis, in which Greece and Italy had to initially cope with large numbers of migrants fleeing the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS, with significant numbers of refugees coming across the Mediterranean and landing in a small handful of European States.<\/p>\n

The self-stated aim of the Migration Pact is to replace the existing Dublin immigration rules.<\/p>\n

It would look to speed up the first round of checks on people arriving at the border, with more thorough security and health assessments, and to overhaul how the State handles the removal of those who are refused asylum.<\/p>\n

EU governments are also discussing the idea of setting up processing centres in non-EU countries to manage deportations when someone\u2019s home state will not take them back. Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin has said in recent weeks that the Government is considering whether this kind of system could fit into Ireland\u2019s response.<\/p>\n

The proposed changes would expand the situations in which someone can be held while their removal is arranged, and they would allow authorities to send an unsuccessful applicant either to their home country or to a designated safe third country, even without the person\u2019s agreement. At the moment, only about one fifth of people who are refused asylum are actually returned to their home State.<\/p>\n

The European Commission now classes Ireland as being under migration pressure, pointing to the ongoing shortage of accommodation for those seeking protection.<\/p>\n

Some Irish TDs, including Tipperary Independent, Mattie McGrath have argued against the EU pact, saying it undermines sovereignty and Ireland\u2019s right to decide at a rime of unprecedented migration, while Aont\u00fa called for a referendum on the measure.<\/p>\n

79 TDs voted in favour of Ireland\u2019s opt-in to the EU Migration Pact last year<\/a>, with 72 voting against. Opposing the measure, leader of Independent Ireland, Deputy Michael Collins, said that the voting through of the pact was \u201cagainst the will of the Irish people, kicking democracy in the teeth\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, then Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, \u201cwarmly welcomed\u201d\u00a0 Ireland\u2019s opt-in to the pact saying \u201cEU migration is a shared European challenge, and the Pact will greatly assist Ireland to continue taking an active role in managing migration in Europe, securing national and EU borders, and ensuring our asylum systems are cohesive, fair, and efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n has said that his country will not implement the measures of the EU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,120312,13,14,6,11,12,15,16,5,120313,54402,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-223493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eu-migration-pact","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-latest-news","15":"tag-latestnews","16":"tag-main-news","17":"tag-mainnews","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-orban","20":"tag-rebellion","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-world","24":"tag-world-news","25":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115689098164200930","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}