Hungary Outside EU Refugee Quota System - European Parliament President

European Parliament President Martin Schulz has said Hungary is not involved in the EU refugee quota system due to its own approaches to migration, but other European countries are willing to cooperate on the issue.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The president of the European Parliament added that other countries in the region, unlike Hungary, might be willing to volunteer in accommodating refugees, citing Portugal and Spain as an example.

"Mr. [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban has clearly decided to go his own way," Schulz told the TV show Berlin direkt in an interview on Sunday.

On Thursday, the head of the Hungarian prime minister's administration, Janos Lazar, said that his country would most likely build a fence on its border with Romania, a common practice of some European states in addressing the growing number of migrants reaching their territories.

Hungary is one of the four Visegrad Group (V4 group) states, along with Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The V4 group opposes the implementation of the EU mandatory quota scheme to share thousands of refugees within the 28-nation bloc.