Gergely Gulyás

Hungary is considering legal action to compel the European Union's executive commission to reimburse the costs it has incurred for border protection, according to a minister's statement on Thursday. This move could intensify Hungary's ongoing dispute with the EU over its stringent immigration and asylum policies, reports AP.

Hungary's government announced that it was closing down the controversial transit zones in Röszke and Tompa. The announcement came after the European Court of Justice, ECJ, ruled that asylum-seekers may not be detained longer than 28 days in transit zones. Some of them have been detained there for 300 or even 400 days.

Hungary should change its laws on public assembly, a lawmaker from the ruling FIDESZ party has said following last week's massive anti-government protest in Budapest.