Hungary plans to hold a referendum on future European Union quotas for resettling migrants in September or early October, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's cabinet chief said on Tuesday.
Migrants are pictured at a Turkish coastguard station after a
failed attempt at crossing to the Greek island of Lesbos, in the Turkish
coastal town of Dikili, Turkey April 6, 2016. REUTERS/Murad Sezer/File
photo
BUDAPEST: Hungary plans to hold a referendum
on future European Union quotas for resettling migrants in September or
early October, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's cabinet chief said on
Tuesday.
Antal Rogan said that after parliament gives
the plan the green light, President Janos Ader will have to set the date
for the referendum on mandatory migrant quotas, which Rogan said was an
"issue of national sovereignty".
(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs)
- Reuters
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