BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban expects a high rate of asylum requests to be rejected after tougher new rules take effect from midnight, according to excerpts of an interview with private broadcaster TV2 published online on Monday.
Orban was also quoted as saying in the interview published on the origo.hu website that his government "was more likely than not" to declare a crisis situation due to mass migration on Tuesday.
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