The Brussels establishment may view Hungary’s outspoken prime minister, Viktor Orbán, as a xenophobic outcast, but his own country stands behind him — something many other EU leaders can’t take for granted these days.
For Europe, this was the loudest message from Hungarian voters in their referendum Sunday, in which more than 98 percent rejected the EU’s quota system for resettling migrants, according to preliminary results posted by Hungary’s National Election Office.
European leaders had already begun backtracking from the mandatory quota plan, making Hungary’s non-binding referendum doubly pointless from a policy perspective. But as a political exercise, Sunday’s vote offered a …read more
Source: European Voice
