The Hungarian constitutional court has determined that a law providing for imprisonment for civil refugee helpers, as constitutional, but its application restricted. The anchored in legislation a criminal offence of “illegal Migration” was only when people or organizations are intentionally and purposefully in the interest of people who are exposed to persecution, and in the country illegally, noted the Supreme court in their ruling on Thursday .
The said offence was also not met, if civilian refugee targeted assistant with their actions solely to mitigate the suffering of the needy and to give them a humane treatment to be meted out.
The government of the right-wing nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban had the provisions in the previous year, under the name of “Stop-and-Soros-law” from the Parliament to decide, to civilian refugees criminal assistants threaten legal consequences. In the case of violations provided for in case of repetition imprisonment up to one year.
The European Commission has initiated due to the law, an infringement procedure against Hungary. The term “Stop Soros” refers to the liberal U.S. billionaire George Soros. The Hungarian-born Holocaust Survivor supports with his humanitarian Foundation, numerous civil organisations that help refugees and asylum seekers.
The Hungarian government propaganda under Soros, Europe with masses of Muslim immigrants are flooding. A recent poster campaign defamed him as a demonic Einflüsterer of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. She has taken care of Europe-wide outrage.
The EU Commission is in the meantime, in dispute with the poster campaign in the counter-offensive. The authority has published on Thursday a four-page information sheet on Hungarian and English in the seven allegations against Brussels invalidated. The Commission regretted that this was necessary, said a spokeswoman. The Hungarians deserve it but “to know the truth”.
authority is allegations against Juncker invalidate
“the allegations made by The Hungarian government are in the worst case, outright factually incorrect, or at best highly misleading”, it is in the header of the information sheet. “The Commission would therefore like to put things right, point for point.” The Commission refers also to the fact that each member state “, including Hungary’s” responsibility for at the EU level, carrying jointly the decisions taken.
In the conservative European people’s party (EPP), which both Juncker as well as Orban belong to, has caused the campaign a debate about whether the Hungarian Fidesz party, should be excluded. Next Wednesday, the EPP group in the European Parliament discussed for the first time. Juncker had said last week that in his view there was no space left for Orban in the EPP.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is meanwhile trying to smooth the waters. As Hungarian media reported on Thursday, met two Orban-Familiar – Chancellery Minister Gergely Gulyas, and Ex-social Affairs Minister Zoltan Balog – in Berlin with the CDU-Boss Annegret Kramp-karrenbauer. The EU Commission claims the poster campaign rejected meanwhile, in all the sharpness.
Orban Familiar going to EPP-prevent exclusion
The CDU in Berlin, confirmed the Meeting with the Deputy Chairman of the Fidesz party, Gulyas. Kramp-Karrenbauer have called on Fidesz to prove credibly that she felt the common values of the EPP and the common objectives of the work in the European Parliament. They have already announced in the CDU Federal Executive Committee on Monday, to make clear and concerted distancing from the CDU and the CSU of the poster campaign of the Hungarian government in a direct conversation.
the Meeting had previously reported the “world”-Journalist Robin Alexander on Twitter. Accordingly, the Orban-were looking for the interview with Kramp Familiar-Karrenbauer, to the exclusion of the Hungarian government party, Fidesz, the conservative European people’s party avert. This also includes the CDU and the CSU.
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The opposition daily “Nepszava” reported on Thursday, citing Fidesz circles, Orban’s envoy to Berlin had at Kramp-Karrenbauer “minimal progress” achieved. The private television station ATV, according to a PPE should be-to the exclusion of Fidesz to the European elections in may from the table. (dpa, AFP)
