A briefing document from the offices of Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has slammed Brussels for what it says is the continuing punishment of the central European nation for its refusal to follow EU mandated immigration policies as the US says it wants to take “full control” of its own borders.
Hungary has been ordered to pay a lump sum of 200 million euros as well as a daily fine of 1 million euro for failing to comply with asylum policies dictated by Brussels.
The Prime Minister’s office states that the release of the new National Security Strategy from the Trump White House “has created panic” in Europe as the administration signals that the EU could be seen as a less attractive business partner due to political policies, which the White House says do not align with American values.
The briefing note continues that the new strategy document “indicates that the Trump administration wants to completely restructure the US-EU relationship” and that its contents are “extremely critical of the drift on the part of the EU toward demographic replacement” which the Trump administration “believes will fundamentally change the nature of Europe and could make it a difficult partner to work with in the future.”
The National Security Strategy also places emphasis on strict border controls with the Trump administration saying it was “full control” over who enters its territories.
“We want a world in which migration is not merely “orderly” but one in which sovereign countries work together to stop rather than facilitate destabilizing population flows, and have full control over whom they do and do not admit.”
It further states that the Trump administration wants to “protect this country, its people, its territory, its economy, and its way of life from military attack and hostile foreign influence, whether espionage, predatory trade practices, drug and human trafficking, destructive propaganda and influence operations, cultural subversion, or any other threat to our nation.”
In response to this, Hungary has sent a warning to the White House saying that “the EU’s approach to migration is even more extreme than many in the United States understand.”
“Countries that resist the mass migration policies imposed from Brussels, like Hungary, are actively punished for pursuing the same policies that the Trump White House is endorsing.” it said, pointing to the million euro per day fine imposed by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the country.
The ECJ has determined that Hungary has “failed to comply with the rules of EU law on, inter alia, procedures for granting international protection and returning illegally staying third-country nationals.”
It says that this consists of “restricting access to the international protection procedure, unlawfully detaining applicants for international protection in transit zones and failing to observe their right to remain in Hungarian territory pending a final decision on their appeal against the rejection of their application, as well as the removal of illegally staying third-country nationals.”
The Orbán government called on the US to “more closely examine” the “nature” of Brussel’s migration policy, saying that the Trump administration is “currently underwriting the continent’s security.”
The new US security strategy also underpins the White House’s commitment to “oppose elite-driven,anti-democratic restrictions on core liberties in Europe, the Anglosphere, and
the rest of the democratic world, especially among our allies.”
It says it also rejects the “disastrous “climate change” and “Net Zero” ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threaten the United States, and subsidize our adversaries.”