Hungary committed to hold planned migrant quota referendum


  • World
  • Monday, 27 Jun 2016

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will go ahead with a planned referendum on future European Union quotas for resettling migrants, a Hungarian government spokesman said on Monday.

"The government is determined, and has no reason not to hold (the vote)," spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told Reuters. "It has never been more relevant to ask what the people think."

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