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Hungary to hold referendum on EU migrant quotas
Published Tue, Jul 5, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Budapest
HUNGARY will hold a referendum on Oct 2 on whether to accept any future European Union quota system for resettling migrants, Hungary's president said on Tuesday.
Emboldened by Britain's shock vote to quit the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orban is forging ahead with his referendum on migration, after taking an anti-immigrant stance since the migration crisis escalated last year.
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