Should the EU expel Hungary?

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.

Euro|Topics relaunched their website during 2016. Features published before that date are still available via an archive website (see related url hyperlinks).In an interview in the German newspaper Die Welt on the 13 September 2016, Luxembourg's foreign minister Jean Asselborn said the only way to protect EU values was to exclude Hungary from the European Union. In response Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto called the minister 'sermonising' and 'pompous'.

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Deutsche Welle, 13.09.16: Luxembourg foreign minister calls for Hungary to be booted from EU http://dw.com/p/1K0yL

Hungary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: News, 14.09.16: The attacks against Hungary are severely worsening the European crisis http://www.kormany.hu/en/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-trade/news/the-attacks-against-hungary-are-severely-worsening-the-european-crisis

ESO: Background information: Hungarian migrant quota referendum, 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/hungarian-migrant-quota-referendum-2016/

Politico, 13.09.16: Luxembourg foreign minister: Hungary should leave EU http://www.politico.eu/article/luxembourg-foreign-minister-jean-asselborn-hungary-should-leave-eu/

ESO: Background information: Orban: Hungary to build second fence line on Serbian border http://www.europeansources.info/record/construction-of-a-second-fence-line-on-border-between-hungary-and-serbia/

Luxemburger Wort, 13.09.16: Bettel distances himself from minister's condemnation of Hungary http://www.wort.lu/en/politics/hungary-migrant-furore-bettel-distances-himself-from-minister-s-condemnation-of-hungary-57d81fefac730ff4e7f66597

EUObserver, 13.09.16: EU should kick out Hungary, says Luxembourg minister https://euobserver.com/political/135050

EurActiv, 20.09.16: Hungary readies attacks on Juncker over migration referendum http://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/hungary-readies-attacks-on-juncker-over-migration-referendum/

Politico, 19.09.16: Insulted Hungary won’t stop criticizing EU http://www.politico.eu/article/vikto-orban-insulted-hungary-wont-stop-criticizing-eu-jean-asselborn-migration/

EurActiv, 21.09.16: Hungary breaking EU law on migrants, Nordic nations say http://www.euractiv.com/section/justice-home-affairs/news/hungary-breaking-eu-law-on-migrants-nordic-nations-say/

Euro|Topics: Debates, September 2016: Hungary in the run-up to the refugee referendum http://www.eurotopics.net/en/154535/hungary-in-the-run-up-to-the-refugee-referendum

Hungary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: News, 20.09.16: It is not right to apply pressure on certain countries to admit refugees, says Hungarian Foreign Minister http://www.kormany.hu/en/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-trade/news/it-is-not-right-to-apply-pressure-on-certain-countries-to-admit-refugees-says-hungarian-foreign-minister

Hungary: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: News, 19.09.16: Brussels is still in favour of the quota http://www.kormany.hu/en/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-trade/news/brussels-is-still-in-favour-of-the-quota

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