As per published draft legislation, Hungary decreed to cut cash and other subsidies for asylum-seekers, and scrap measures designed to help them integrate into society.
The government included in the draft to reduce the space available in refugee holding centers. Refugees who were granted protection will only be allowed to stay in camps for one-month instead of two months and their eligibility for health care services from one year to six months.
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban believed that such decree could prevent economic migrants seeking asylum in the country and could reduce social subsidies for asylum seekers who received international protection.
Moreover, he said that large influx of Muslim immigrants could destroy Hungarians' lifestyle and endanger Europe's Christian culture. Thus, Hungary will not participate in any resettlement plan and that nothing should be done without the closing of the borders.
In a statement by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, he said that his country concluded the new agreement on migrants with the European Union because the wave of refugees has increased tremendously in the last months.
Reportedly, he told that Turkey is already home to 2.7 million refugees and hundreds of thousands more are currently on the Syrian side of the border.
"They are in a very desperate situation, and we are very worried whether there could be new waves of refugees," he said.
At an EU summit, Davutoglu said he presented Turkey's proposals to discourage new migrants from entering Turkey, improve the living standard of existing refugees, and strengthen Turkish-EU ties - not only on illegal migrant issues but also on all challenging issues.
However, Orban said that he will veto any plan to resettle asylum seekers directly from Turkey to EU countries in a setback for a European Union summit seeking a deal on how to deal with the migrant crisis.
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel told that the EU Council President Donald Tusk should take forward with the proposal and work out the details with the Turkish side before the next EU summit.
The EU tried many attempts to persuade Turkey to take back thousands of migrants and do more to stop others leaving for Europe.
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere and Italy's Angelino Alfano proposed for an EU-wide system to register migrants and a harmonization of selection procedures and rights for asylum seekers, a German newspaper reported. They also called for an "ambitious reform" of the Dublin rules - which oblige migrants to request asylum in the first EU country they enter by means of a newly adjusted Common European Asylum System.
Human rights organizations condemned how Hungary responded to the migrant crisis in Europe.
Hungarian Helsinki Committee, a human rights group, said the government's true aim was to discourage those granted asylum in Hungary to stay.
Mata Pardavi, the Committee co-chair said, "It takes away the possibility of starting a new life even from those the government recognized as needing protection. The objective is to make asylum-seekers leave."
