EU court involved in "coordinated assault" against Hungary, says Orbán – POLITICO

Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán | Sean Gallup / Getty Images

The Prime Minister said that the Hungarian constitution should prevail over EU law.

It is no coincidence that the highest court in the EU ruled on a Hungarian case on the same day as a debate in the European Parliament on the rule of law in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.

The EU Court of Justice on Thursday statue that the maintenance of asylum seekers in the Röszke transit zone on the Serbian-Hungarian border should be qualified as "detention" and that people cannot spend more than four weeks in the transit zone. The judgment, formulated in response to a referral from Hungarian judges, declared that the Hungarian system of keeping certain asylum seekers in the transit zone for more than a year is illegal and that the detainees have the right to initiate individual legal proceedings. .

Speaking on state property Kossuth RádióOrbán said the decision was part of a "coordinated assault" by the EU, and said the issue that drives the thinking of European leaders remains migration.

Members of the European Parliament held a Thursday debate on emergency measures against coronavirus in Hungary, many MEPs expressing concern about the rule of law and calling for sanctions against the government of the country.

Brussels bureaucrats want to force EU members to welcome immigrants "against their will," said Orbán.

"We hope that the Hungarian authorities will fully implement the CJEU resolution without delay" – Barbara Pohárnok, lawyer of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee

The Prime Minister also questioned the legitimacy of the Court of Justice ruling.

"It is quite obvious that if the European Court takes a decision contrary to the Hungarian constitution and this situation is currently unfolding before our eyes, then the Hungarian constitution must obviously prevail," he said.

A decision by the German Constitutional Court earlier this month on a European Central Bank bond purchase program was seen as questioning the EU's supremacy over the law national and raised the question of whether Hungary will continue to comply with higher court judgments.

In matters of asylum, it is now up to the regional court in Szeged to implement the decision of the court in Luxembourg.

"We are confident that the Hungarian authorities will fully implement the CJEU resolution without delay and will take all necessary measures regarding people illegally detained in transit areas." If this is not done, we will ensure that the courts compel them to do so. " told me