Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on Hungary's fine from the European Union

The European Union's top court has fined Hungary €200m ($400m NZD) for failing to follow asylum policies. 

The court will also penalise Hungary €1m a day until it changes its policy. 

UK Correspondent Gavin Grey told Heather du Plessis-Allan “Hungary is a big recipient of funds from the E.U.” 

Grey said “The E.U is annoyed with Budapest as they’re in breach of a 220 judgement.” 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Gavin Gray UK corresponds with us now evening, Gevin, Hi,
there ev given us Hungry, you're going to pay this
fine At the moment, there's a bit of a standoff
going on. So Hungry is being fined by the European
Union for not following the Union's asylum policies. It's a
big fine of roughly four hundred million New Zealand dollars.

(00:22):
But of course Hungary is a big recipient of funds
from the EU, so it's a bit of an in
and out policy this. However, interestingly, the Court, the European's
top court that find Hungary has also issued a one
million euro a day extra charge until it changes its policy.
That's roughly one point six million New Zealand dollars a day. Now.

(00:45):
What basically happened is the European Court of Justices annoyed
with Budapest, saying it's in breach of a twenty twenty
judgment across the European Union and has violated its laws
by forcing asylum seekers to travel to bell Grade or
Kiev to apply for a travel permit to end to Hungary.
They are not allowed to do that. They should instead

(01:06):
accept migrants and then process them at that particular point
rather than sending them away again. Now, Victor Alban, who's
the Prime Minister of Hungary, very outspoken, quite anti EU,
said the fine has been quote for defending the borders
of the European Union, describing it as outrageous and unacceptable,
and then said it seems that illegal migrants are more

(01:29):
important to the Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens. Well,
along with the European elections that we've had this week
and a bit of a lurch to the right, sometimes
far right in a couple of countries, Hungary certainly prominent
in the leading voice of dissenters now within the EU. Kevin,
how bad are these drug wars in Northeast England getting? Well?

(01:51):
They appear to be pretty grim, don't they. So we've
had a court case just finished here in the UK
up in Northumbria, that's South Townside up to the extreme
northeast of England, where four men have been found guilty
of killing a man during a series of ammonia attacks
that were meant to intimidate rival drug gangs. Now, they
basically would bang on the door, somebody would open it

(02:13):
and they would immediately spray them in the face with ammonia,
which is of course highly corrosive, highly poisonous. In one incident,
a young woman who police said was not meant to
be the target, lost her eye in one of the
three attacks, such was the level of toxicity from the ammonia. However,
the big headline in this story is that one of

(02:35):
the attacks they carried out did end out in a fatality.
In August, two of the men in the gang knocked
on a twenty six year old front door, sprayed him
in the face before stealing from inside his home. He
was taken to hospital with life threatening injuries, but he
struggled to breathe and then died a short time later,

(02:55):
suffering a cardiac arrest. So the four who have been
found guilty, ranging in ages from twenty two to thirty nine,
are now being sentenced at a couple of weeks time.
What happened to the Yorkshire Football Club's ball? This is
just one of those funny funny stories. So, of course,
lots of the small little football club soccer clubs here

(03:16):
in the UK, and in particular Naphaton Youth Football Club
in East Yorkshire. So to the north of England basically
play with footballs that have stamped on them. Napaton Youth
Football Club now they didn't realize any were missing, but
they received a contact from Facebook from a beach walker

(03:37):
in Holland who said, I've got one of your footballs.
It's washed ashore on the island of ter Shilling. Well,
the chair and coach of the club, said, how the
ball came to arrive some four hundred miles six hundred
kilometers across the North Sea is one of life's great mysteries,
he said. One of the theories is that the possibility may

(03:58):
be a wayward shot landed in a ditch. The ditch
then became a river, The river then swept out for sea,
and then the tide did the rest. But we simply
don't know. And the man who found the football onter
Shilling just said he couldn't believe when he read it
that had come from the UK. They incidentally, don't believe

(04:19):
they have had any foreign football matches from Yorkshire into
Shilling and neither incidentally have they had any they think
anywhere their players go and take the ball on holiday
and kick it around and then lose it. So extraordinary
how it should have made its way all the way
from Yorkshire to ter Schilling. It's one of those mysteries.
I Gevin, thank you so much. Enjoy your weekend. Devin

(04:40):
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