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Europe's Migrant Crisis: Views from Central Europe

Europe’s Migrant Crisis: Views from Central Europe

The European Union has initiated legal action against the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland for failing to comply with a controversial order to take in thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The so-called infringement procedure, which authorizes the European Commission, the powerful executive arm of the European Union, to sue member states that are considered to be in…

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Commission opens infringement procedure against Hungary concerning its asylum law

European Commission - Press release, Brussels, 10 December 2015

“The European Commission has today addressed a letter of formal notice to Hungary, opening an infringement procedure concerning the recently adopted Hungarian asylum legislation. The Commission has found the Hungarian legislation in some instances to be incompatible with EU law (specifically, the recast Asylum Procedures Directive (Directive 2013/32/EU) and the Directive on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings (Directive 2010/64/EU)).”

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-15-6228_en.htm

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In light of the European Commission's recent decission to start an accelerated infringement procedure against Hungary - press release available here, it has published a short FAQ detailing the mechanisms behind such a procedure.