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Hungary Raises the Stakes in European Migrant Hot Potato Game

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“Diversity for thee but not for me” is the ethos of the supranational ruling class pushing replacement migration on the entire West.

The rest of the continent gets drowned in “migrants” while the Hunger Games capital in Brussels remains pristine as the driven snow.

Taking a page out of the DeSantis book — the governor infamously shipped buses full of “migrants” to the uber-liberal virtue-flexers at Martha’s Vineyard who received them with a hypocritical cacophony of protests — Hungary is now threatening to bus “migrants” (the NGO term for illegal Third World immigrants) to Brussels.

With a flair for optics, the spokesman for “far-right” Hungarian party Fidesz delivered the threat in front of a fleet of buses that had “Brussels” written in Hungarian on the destination sign, just to drive the point home.

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Via Remix News (emphasis added):

Hungary has upped the ante in the migration debate with Brussels by presenting the buses it can use to send migrants to the EU capital, with a Hungarian politician repeating the threat on Monday after Belgium said it would reject the buses.

If Brussels “wants us to let them in, we will let them in—put them on the bus, and drop them off in front of [European Commission President] Ursula von der Leyen’s office,” said Tamás Menczer, the spokesman for the Hungarian ruling party Fidesz in a video posted on his Facebook account on Monday, Sept. 9.

The original threat that made international headlines was made by Hungary’s interior minister, Bence Rétvari, during a press conference in front of a fleet of buses last week.

Predictably, the EU is not thrilled about the prospect of welcoming Diversity™ into its stronghold in Brussels, calling the action “unacceptable” and vowing to stop it at all costs.

Via EuroNews (emphasis added):

The European Commission will use all the legal powers at its disposal to stop Hungary from bussing irregular migrants to Brussels, a move that would represent a serious escalation in the decades-long showdown between the executive and Viktor Orbán.

Budapest's threat to deliberately transport migrants from one member state to another is considered retaliation for the €200 million fine the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has imposed on Hungary, which the country refuses to pay.

No transfer has yet taken place and it's unclear when they will happen, if at all.

"In terms of the announcements made by the Hungarian authorities that they would transport irregular migrants from the Hungarian Serbian borders to Brussels, in one word, basically, it is unacceptable," a Commission spokesperson said on Tuesday.

The above-referenced fine levied by the ECJ is from a ruling earlier this year by the European Union’s highest court ordering Hungary to pay a million euros per day for failing to take enough migrants in accordance with international law.

Via France 24 (emphasis added):

The EU’s top court on Thursday fined Hungary 200 million euros ($216 million) and imposed a daily one-million-euro penalty for failing to follow the bloc’s asylum laws and illegally deporting migrants, a decision Budapest slammed as “unacceptable”.

The fine and penalty were because Hungary “is deliberately evading” compliance with the European Union laws despite a 2020 ruling that it must uphold international procedures for asylum seekers, the European Court of Justice said.

“Since this failure to fulfil obligations constitutes an unprecedented and exceptionally serious breach of EU law, the Court orders Hungary to pay a lump sum of 200 million euros and a penalty payment of one million euros per day of delay,” it said in a statement.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is frequently at loggerheads with Brussels, immediately voiced outrage.

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