Finally, the European Commission has achieved “solidarity, security, responsibility and efficiency.” That, anyway, is according to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who on Monday hailed the “kick-starting” of the European Union’s Pact on Migration and Asylum.
In actual fact, the green-lighting of measures by foreign ministers has caused a great deal of division, with some member states insisting they will not implement the ‘pact.’
As is often the case, Hungary is prime among these. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been especially critical of the decision that nations must either accept migrants or contribute a financial payment—that is, effectively, a fine—for each person they decline to take in, saying this was “a new, absurd, and unjust attack.” The PM stressed that “Hungary already spends enough to protect the Union’s external border,” adding:
We will not take a single migrant in, and we will not pay for others’ migrants. Hungary will not implement the measures of the Migration Pact. The rebellion begins!
Orbán’ spokesman, Zoltan Kovacs, also described the ‘choice’ being imposed on member states as “coercion.”
They call it a “solidarity mechanism.” We call it what it is: a punishment for success. Those who opened their borders get rewarded. Those who defended theirs must now “show solidarity” or face sanctions.
🇪🇺 So, Brussels has decided again. Hungary — the only EU country that stopped illegal migration — will now be forced to “show solidarity” with states that failed to protect their borders.
Poland, among some other countries, is exempt from receiving quotas of migrants relocated from elsewhere because it already faces a “significant migratory situation.” But right-wing political Krzysztof Bosak stressed that this is not enough of a consolation, saying “the only way to solve the problem is to turn the boats back on international waters.”
Any other path is complicity in the illegal colonisation of our continent by people who will despise us as losers incapable of using force and defending their territory and their legal order.
There has been a good deal of uproar in Ireland, too. Establishment officials in Dublin have reportedly opted to make financial contributions to states that take in migrants, rather than take any themselves—as have those in Belgium. But many argue that it should not be up to Ireland to—as Senator Sarah O’Reilly put it—“pick up the slack. The government,” she said, “needs to grow a backbone and stand up for Ireland’s interests.”
Remember folks, the government opted into this "migration pact" without consultation with the Irish people.
Now they tell us we are either lumbered with floods of undesirable immigrants from the third world, or lumbered with massive payouts to other EU countries.
— The National Party | An Páirtí Náisiúnta (@NationalPartyIE) December 8, 2025
Councillor Gavin Pepper added that “Ireland is full, it’s that simple. We need to opt out of the EU migration pact. The European Union is a basket case.”
The pact is supposed to come into effect in the middle of next year.
Michael Curzon is a news writer for europeanconservative.com based in England’s Midlands. He is also Editor of Bournbrook Magazine, which he founded in 2019, and previously wrote for London’s Express Online. His Twitter handle is @MichaelCurzon_.
