Justice min: Govt calls on EU Portuguese presidency to reject migrant quota

Hungary's standpoint on mandatory migrant quotas, in tandem with the Visegrad Group, remains the same as ever, and it calls on the Portuguese European Union presidency to reject the quotas, Judit Varga, the justice minister, told public media after a meeting of EU European affairs ministers. The chief aims of the Portuguese presidency were discussed at Monday's meeting in parallel with a series of conferences on the EU's future, Varga noted, adding that Hungary's standpoint is that economic policy, geared towards strengthening social rights, should be a sovereign matter. Varga also said Hungary expects the Portuguese presidency to implement the agreement on the rule of law, making clear that funding could not be tied to "ideological expectations".