On Thursday 18 February, the European Commission sent a reasoned opinion to Hungary regarding legislation that was adopted within the context of the coronavirus pandemic and which, in the view of the Commission, illegally restricts migrants’ access to the asylum procedure.
A first letter of formal notice was sent to the Hungarian authorities at the end of October 2020; it denounced the outsourcing of asylum policy under the justification of the Covid-19 pandemic (see EUROPE B12593A16).
Under...