Gulyas: Migration decisive campaign theme in EP elections

Never before has a single European issue defined a European parliamentary election campaign almost everywhere in the bloc, Gergely Gulyas, the head of the prime minister's office, said in a briefing to parliament's foreign affairs committee on Tuesday. Gulyas said Hungary accepted the principle of solidarity but rejected migrant quotas, "as there is no legal basis for this". Referring to the EP election, he said similar political developments to those seen in Germany would be repeated elsewhere in Europe. In Germany, he said, grand coalitions had become the norm in recent times, but this situation has changed. "The issue of migration has shifted the balance of power," he added.