Hungary fined €200M for breaking EU asylum rules

Budapest’s snub of earlier ruling “constitutes an unprecedented and exceptionally serious breach of EU law,” the court said.

The European Court of Justice on Thursday fined Hungary €200 million for breaking the EU’s asylum laws and ignoring an earlier judgment.

The Luxembourg court first ruled in December 2020 that Hungary had failed to comply with the bloc’s rules on the treatment of migrants by “unlawfully detaining” asylum seekers and deporting them before they could appeal the rejection of their applications, ordering Budapest to make changes to its policies.

Hungary ignored the judgment, which the ECJ described in a statement on Thursday as “deliberately evading the application of the EU common policy.”
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