Hungary PM: EU ruling opens way to mixed culture

A ruling by the European Union’s top court upholding the relocation of asylum-seekers opens the way to a “mixed culture and population” on the continent, Hungary’s prime minister has warned.

Viktor Orban said he “took note” of Wednesday’s ruling by the European Court of Justice rejecting legal arguments by Hungary and Slovakia against the EU decision to relocate 160,000 asylum-seekers from Greece and Italy within the bloc, but he would continue to oppose the plan.

“Now, instead of a legal fight, we have to fight a political fight,” Mr Orban said. “We have to get the different EU organisations to say that the decision they made, even if it was legal, was a bad decision … which the member states can’t and won’t carry out.”