Brussels Deducting Hungary’s $230 Million in Unpaid Asylum Fines From EU Funds

Published on September 19, 2024

The European Union began the process of deducting hundreds of millions of euros in funds meant to go to Hungary after Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government refused to pay a huge fine for breaking the bloc’s rules on asylum, on Wednesday. In June, Europe’s top court ordered Budapest to pay €200 million ($223 million) for consistently depriving immigrants of their right to apply for asylum. The court also imposed an additional fine of a million euros for every day Hungary failed to comply. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) described Hungary’s actions as “an unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU law.”...

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