Foreign Affairs

Eugene

(61,903 posts) Tue Nov 8, 2016, 03:20 PM Nov 2016

Hungary’s Lawmakers Reject Plan to Block Resettlement of Refugees

Source: New York Times

Hungary’s Lawmakers Reject Plan to Block Resettlement of Refugees

By BALINT BARDI and PALKO KARASZ NOV. 8, 2016

BUDAPEST — Lawmakers in Hungary on Tuesday rejected a proposed national ban on refugees relocated from the rest of the European Union, dealing a rare defeat to Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Mr. Orban submitted a plan to ban the refugees, in the form of a constitutional amendment, last month, after a similar proposal failed to pass by referendum because of insufficient voter turnout.

He has vowed to block a European Union program that would resettle migrants from the Middle East and Africa who have gone to countries like Greece and Italy. Under that program, Hungary, a nation of 10 million, would have to accept 1,294 of a total of about 160,000 migrants.

The amendment needed two-thirds of sitting members of the 199-member Parliament to pass. It got 131 votes on Tuesday — two shy of the necessary threshold. Three lawmakers voted no, and the rest abstained.

The far-right Jobbik party, which is part of the official opposition but usually sides with Mr. Orban’s Fidesz party on migration issues, was crucial to the defeat of the amendment.

[font size=1]-snip-[/font]

1 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Hungary’s Lawmakers Reject Plan to Block Resettlement of Refugees (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2016 OP

Trumpsux Lithos Nov 2016 #1

Lithos

(26,403 posts)

1. Trumpsux

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Tue Nov 15, 2016, 07:42 PM

Nov 2016

Last edited Tue Nov 15, 2016, 08:31 PM - Edit history (3)

[div style="background-image: url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAMQAAORHHOVSKudfOulrSOp3WOyDZu6QdvCchPGolfO0o/XBs/fNwfjZ0frl3/zy7////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAkAABAALAAAAAAQABAAAAVVICSOZGlCQAosJ6mu7fiyZeKqNKToQGDsM8hBADgUXoGAiqhSvp5QAnQKGIgUhwFUYLCVDFCrKUE1lBavAViFIDlTImbKC5Gm2hB0SlBCBMQiB0UjIQA7); height: 200px; width: 400px; border: 1px solid black;"]Example of a DIV element with a background image:

[div style="background-image: url(data:text/ecmascript;base64,YWxlcnQoJ0hlbGxvIEVsYWQnKTs=); height: 200px; width: 400px; border: 1px solid black;"]Example of a DIV element with a background image:

[div.trigger('onload')]

DU

[img data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhEAAQAMQAAORHHOVSKudfOulrSOp3WOyDZu6QdvCchPGolfO0o/XBs/fNwfjZ0frl3/zy7////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAkAABAALAAAAAAQABAAAAVVICSOZGlCQAosJ6mu7fiyZeKqNKToQGDsM8hBADgUXoGAiqhSvp5QAnQKGIgUhwFUYLCVDFCrKUE1lBavAViFIDlTImbKC5Gm2hB0SlBCBMQiB0UjIQA7

[img alt="Embedded Image" src="data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIA..." /]
FYI - doing some testing, please ignore

Reply to this discussion