EU to Enforce €200 Million Fine From Hungary
Hungary refuses to pay fines for breaking EU asylum rules. Brussels is taking the money anyway.
The European Union on Wednesday began the process of clawing back hundreds of millions of euros in funds meant to go Hungary after its ant-migrant government refused to pay a huge fine for breaking the bloc’s asylum rules.
European Commission to collect 200 million euro fine from Hungary
The European Commission announced on Wednesday it will move to subtract Hungary's 200 million euro fine from the country's EU funds, European Commission spokesperson Balazs Ujvari confirmed. This
EU to Enforce €200 Million Fine From Hungary in Asylum Spat
The European Union said it will deduct €200 million ($222 million) from its next payments to Hungary after the country failed to pay a fine imposed for its asylum policies before the expiration of a Tuesday deadline.
EU slashes €200mn of budget payments to Hungary
Brussels has said it will deduct €200mn from EU budget payments to Hungary, increasing tensions with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government over its approach to immigration. The move by the EU’s top court comes a day after Budapest missed a deadline to pay a fine of the same value for breaking EU asylum laws.
EU Moves To Withhold Hungary Funds Over Unpaid Asylum Fine
The EU said on Wednesday it was moving to withhold 200 million euros ($222 million) earmarked for Hungary, after Budapest failed to pay an equivalent fine for violating asylum rules.
EU to withhold €200 million from Hungary over asylum fine
The EU Commission says it will withhold funds for Hungary after Budapest failed to pay a fine for violating asylum rules. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's nationalist Fidesz government has taken a hard l
Viktor Orban suffers blow as Hungary to miss out on €200m in EU funds after missing major deadline
Hungary will soon be deprived of a share of its EU funds for refusing to pay a fine imposed in a blow to Viktor Orban's regime. The European Commission has triggered a special procedure to deduct the €200million fine that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has imposed on Hungary over the country's long-standing restrictions on the right to
Brussels moves to deduct €200 million fine from Hungary's EU funds, as country refuses to pay up
Budapest will soon be deprived of a share of its EU funds for refusing to pay the fine imposed by the European Court of Justice.
Hungary says EU not doing enough to end Russian gas dependence
Hungary's energy security chief on Wednesday slammed the European Union for not providing enough support to help smaller, ...
RBC Ukraine on MSN1d
Hungary asks EU for more money to cut off Russian gas
Small landlocked states, including Hungary, require increased European Union funding to reduce their reliance on Russian gas, ...
Watch: Hungary’s Danube River bursts banks as flooding reaches parliament in Budapest
Watch as the swollen Danube River reaches Hungary's parliament building in Budapest as flood waters continued to rise on ...
Belgium's top migration official criticizes Hungary for threatening to bus migrants to Brussels
Belgium’s top migration official has criticized Hungary for threatening to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in ...
EU Condemns Hungary’s Plan To Bus Asylum Seekers To Brussels
A standoff between Hungary and the European Union is escalating, with the latter threatening to use all their power to stop ...
Hungary Laments Boycott After EU Finance Chiefs Avoid Budapest
Hungary doubled down on its vitriol against the European Union after a meeting of finance chiefs in its capital that saw ...
Jurist6d
Hungary prepares to sue EU for border protection costs
Hungary may seek to file a lawsuit against the European Union for border protection costs, Gergely Gulyás, Hungarian Minister ...
Orban confident EU will reimburse Hungary's border protection costs
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he was confident that the European Commission would reimburse Hungary's costs for ...
The Independent10d
Belgium's top migration official criticizes Hungary for threatening to bus migrants to Brussels
said Hungary's threat “undermines solidarity and cooperation within the Union. Belgium continues to advocate a joint, coordinated policy in which respect for European values and international ob ...
The Budapest Times1d
Boka: Hungary requests exemption from EU migration regulations
Curbing illegal migration requires drastic steps and Hungary is requesting exemption from implementing the European Union's ...