The Hungarian government will have to pay a daily fine of €1 million to the European Union unless it backs down and stops pushing migrants back across its borders.
As well as daily penalties, Hungary must pay a €200 million fine for defying previous rulings on refugee policy, the European Court of Justice ruled. Hungary’s asylum policy was “an unprecedented and exceptionally serious breach of EU law”, the court said.
Hungary has no recourse to appeal against the judgment. Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, must now choose between bowing to the judgment, which he denounced as “outrageous and unacceptable”, or paying huge fines.
