Hungarian Prime Minister “Viktor Orbán ... wants a referendum on a question as to whether Hungary should accept 1,294 migrants” out of 160,000 to be distributed among the member states, Merkel said during a live interview on public television ARD.

Even then, this number could most probably be decreased because “he has many Ukrainian refugees”, she added. “This is after all a matter of principle and I can only reject such a course of action”, she said.

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