Vienna confusing solidarity and stupidity: Hungary
‘ Austria can’t accept more than 100K migrants a year’
Budapest/ Vienna, Dec. 21: Hungary has accused Austria of confusing “solidarity and stupidity” after Vienna said that nations which do not accept their share of refugees under European Union quotas should face sanctions.
Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann had said that countries who did not cooperate with the programme and received more money from the EU than they put in should see their subsidies cut.
“The Austrian chancellor does not see the difference between solidarity and stupidity” said Budapest’s foreign minister Peter Szijjarto.
“Solidarity means helping people who are in danger where they live, and helping them to return home once the conflict is finished,” Mr Szijjarto told Hungarian national press agency MTI on Sunday.
“Stupidity is letting hundreds of thousands of people — millions — into Europe with no controls, while everyone, Europeans and migrants alike, can see they’ll never get what they hoped for here,” he said.
German foreign minister Frank- Walter Steinmeier
‘ Solidarity means helping people who are in danger where they live, and helping them to return home once the conflict is finished. Stupidity is letting millions of people into Europe with no controls,’ Budapest’s foreign minister said
has also threatened legal action against EU countries that refused to accept refugees under the bloc’s quota programme, specifically mentioning Hungary and Slovakia.
Meanwhile, Austria’s vice- chancellor said on Monday that Austria could not accept more than 1,00,000 migrants a year, following a pledge from its larger neighbour Germany to limit arrivals.
Most migrants have moved on to Germany, but Austria still expects to have received about 95,000 asylum applications in 2015, equivalent to more than 1 per cent of its population, compared with the 28,000 registered in 2014.
— AFP, Reuters