The EU's top judges have reached a new peak of legal absurdity with their ruling against Hungary's asylum policy. They condemned Hungary for measures that EU states themselves included in the migration pact to stop mass immigration across continents, the Freedom Party of Austria pointed out.

The European Court of Justice, whose rulings are final and cannot be challenged, has imposed a draconian fine on Hungary. In December 2020, the court ruled that Hungary’s harsh asylum policy violated EU law. As Hungary has only partially implemented changes based on this decision, it now has to pay a fine of 200 million euros and an additional 1 million euros per each day of delay. The court’s ruling against Hungary is proportionately the highest fine ever imposed on a member state. The fine amounts to about 0.5 per cent of the country’s total state revenue. The fine previously imposed on Poland for alleged rule of law issues was equivalent to only 0.13 per cent of Poland’s state revenues.

According to the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO), the absurdity of the EU’s top judges culminates in that the European Union itself has partly adopted the tough and harsh policy of Viktor Orban and the Hungarian government in the migration pact.

An important innovation of the reform is the mandatory border procedure. This procedure applies to certain categories of asylum seekers and is designed to ensure that applications are swiftly assessed at the EU’s external borders to determine whether they are unfounded or unacceptable. Those who are subject to the asylum procedure at the border are not allowed to enter the territory of the European Union,

the Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) pointed out.The ruling issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union thus punishes Hungary for something that the EU itself will now introduce as a rule.

FPO General Secretary Christian Hafenecker, who is also chairman of the Austria-Hungary parliamentary group, and MEP Petra Steger criticised the ECJ ruling as an inadmissible interference in the national sovereignty of an EU member state.