On 19 May, the Commission reiterated that its position on the primacy of European law was “well known” and that it was up to “national authorities to apply it”.
Migration spokesperson Adalbert Jahnz reacted to today’s announcements by the Hungarian government that it would not abide by the 14 May ruling of the Court of Justice in the case concerning asylum seekers housed in the Hungarian camp in Röszke on the border with Serbia. According to the court, these people are being held illegally and must be released, since their placement is, in fact, tantamount to unjustified detention (see EUROPE 12487/23).
The case of four migrants from Iran and Afghanistan had been referred to the Court of Justice in December 2019 by the Hungarian administrative court after their applications for asylum were rejected by the Hungarian authorities in April 2019 and, accordingly, it was decided that they would be sent back to Serbia.
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s security adviser György Bakondi revealed that the country would not abide by the ruling because the detention system in the transit zone “works well to prevent migration”, according to local media reports. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)