Hungary will not implement the European Union’s new migration pact and will refuse to accept any migrants under the scheme, senior government officials said Wednesday.
Gergely Gulyas, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, told reporters that EU interior and justice ministers had adopted a decision setting asylum seeker quotas and reception capacity for Hungary.
On Monday, the European Council reached a political agreement on the 2026 migration “Solidarity Pool,” which calls for relocating 21,000 asylum seekers across member states and includes 420 million euros ($489.5 million) in financial contributions.
Gulyas said the mechanism could “in a crisis situation allow the unlimited redistribution of migrants,” which the government considers unacceptable. “Hungary will not implement the migration pact, and will not accept a single migrant,” he said.
He added that a national referendum had shown an “overwhelming majority” opposed mandatory resettlement, arguing the EU cannot decide “with whom Hungarians should live together.”
Prime Minister Viktor Orban also denounced the pact, calling it “a new, absurd, and unjust attack against Hungary” in a social media post. He said the agreement would force Hungary either to take in migrants or pay financial contributions starting next July.
“As long as Hungary has a national government, we will not implement this outrageous decision,” Orban said, adding that next April’s elections would determine whether Hungarians want “a government that will strike a deal with Brussels and accept the migration pact, or … a migrant‑free Hungary.”