Hungary debates anti-refugee legislation
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Hungary's prime minister says his proposed constitutional amendment against any future efforts by the European Union to relocate refugees is about the reights of individual EU nations to oppose an "empire directed by Brussels."
Prime Minister Viktor Orban, speaking Monday at the opening of the parliamentary debate of the amendment, said each country has the right to decide its own fate while others want to replace democratic decision-making with "a faceless bureaucratic directorate."
An Oct. 2 referendum was invalid because of low turnout, but 98 percent of participating voters supported the government's opposition to mandatory quotas.
The far-right Jobbik party supports the amendment "because multiculturalism does not work," while the Socialists, the largest leftist opposition group, said they would boycott the process.
