Hungary's constitutional court strikes down PM Viktor Orban government's bid to challenge the ruling from the EU's top court against Budapest's harsh asylum policy
An EU court ruling had ordered the Hungarian government to suspend a law that allows police to deport or physically"push back" asylum-seekers across the Serbian border.
The petition by Justice Minister Judit Varga "cannot be the subject of a review of the ECJ judgment," nor can it lead to an "examination of the primacy of EU law", the Hungarian court said on Friday. Budapest's "attempt at sabotaging the ECJ ruling judgment has failed, the Constitutional Court refused to question the primacy of EU law," it said in a statement.Budapest had asked the court earlier this year to review a ruling from the European Court of Justice ordering it to suspend a law that allows police to deport or physically "push back" asylum-seekers across the Serbian border.
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