Hungary, Russia’s main ally in the European Union (EU) and which has assumed the Presidency of the EU Council since July 1, has launched through its Head of Government, Gergely Gulyás, a clear warning regarding immigration matters.

“If Brussels continues to want to force a regulation on Hungary, which does not allow stopping migrants at the border, then we will offer every migrant at the Hungarian border “voluntary and free transport to Brussels”Gulyás said at a press conference.

It is the latest episode in a long series of questionable decisions, and on August 14, the NGO Hungarian Helsinki Committee asked the Hungarian government to Do not eliminate housing aid Ukrainian refugees who have arrived from areas not directly affected by the war caused by the Russian invasion. “Hundreds of refugee families with dual Ukrainian-Hungarian nationality face eviction within a week,” the NGO said in a statement.

The government of ultra-nationalist Viktor Orbán decreed last July that as of August 21 Only Ukrainian refugees will receive housing subsidies who have arrived in the Central European country from areas where there is military activity. “The Helsinki Committee considers it morally and legally unacceptable for the government to send families with children who need help out onto the streets,” the NGO added.

The decree could affect hundreds of families who fled to Hungary from regions such as Transcarpathia, where about 150,000 people from the Hungarian ethnic minority lived before the war, according to the NGO. Many Ukrainians, including many single mothers raising their children, have been forced to leave the country. initiated legal claims to be able to continue receiving aid.

The NGO now asks the Government to wait at least until those procedures are resolvedwhere the Helsinki Committee often acts as legal representative. The Orbán government, which is very anti-immigration, only accepts asylum applications from citizens of Ukraine, as it is a neighbouring country, and has repeatedly stated that more than 1.3 million refugees have arrived in Hungary since the start of the war. Experts say that very few of these refugees have stayed in Hungary.

In fact, the Helsinki Committee says that only 44,000 Ukrainians have requested some form of asylum in Hungary.