EU’s Top Court Uses Financial Blackmail to Impose Dysfunctional Migration Rules on Member States
21st June 2024
Last week, Hungary was ordered by the EU’s top court to pay a fine of 200 million euros as well as a daily penalty of 1 million euros for not implementing changes to its migration policy as required by the EU court in previous judgements.
In its decision, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) classified the Hungarian migration measures as “unprecedented and exceptionally serious” infringements of EU law that “undermine in a particularly serious manner both the public interest and the interests of third-country nationals”. One gets the feeling that the EU judiciary is simply living in a parallel universe.
First, the cynical decision to only announce Hungary’s punishment after the European parliamentary elections speaks for itself. The CJEU obviously didn’t want people to cast their vote after hearing about this scandalous decision.