If Hungary paid the fines for refusing to accept migrants as part of the European Union’s quota system, the budget would be around 100 billion forints worse off, the state secretary for government communications has asserted. Bence Tuzson noted that Brussels had indicated a levy of 250,000 euros per migrant would be imposed on countries refusing to participate, and Hungary would be expected to receive 1290 migrants. He said this sum exceeded resources pencilled for VAT cuts in next year’s budget, “so we’re talking about a very big sum”. Hungary was forming an alliance with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland to lobby on the issue.
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