Hungarian gov't suspends EU asylum rule

The Hungarian government decided to suspend the the application of Regulation (EU) No 604/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (Dublin III), which requires an EU country to take back refugees who have travelled from it to another EU country.

The government claims that more than 60,000 immigrants have crossed into Hungary illegally this year, so far and that Hungary’s asylum system is over-burdened.

As the Dublin rules do not foresee the suspension of transfers by the receiving member states, the European Commission called on Hungary to explain immediately why it had stopped taking back asylum seekers from other states in defiance of EU rules.