The European Commission announced on Thursday that it has decided to refer Hungary to the Court of Justice over “legislation that criminalises activities in support of asylum applications and further restrict the right to request asylum.”
The Commission added that it has also sent a letter of formal notice to Bupadest over the conditions in the country’s transit zones — facilities along the border with Serbia where asylum seekers must stay or have their application rejected — which it said qualify “as detention under the EU’s Return Directive”, Euronews reports.