When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talks about migrants, he doesn’t usually mince words — unless, that is, they have money.
Orbán has made fighting migration his signature policy stance, calling a referendum on the EU’s controversial quota scheme for the relocation of refugees and demanding “total control” over the bloc’s external borders as well as the creation of a “giant refugee city” in Libya to process asylum claims.
At the same time, Budapest has been quietly offering residence permits to non-EU nationals, providing successful applicants and their families visa-free access to the EU’s Schengen area in exchange for €300,000 spent on …read more
Source: European Voice
