Rétvári said the Council had backed the measure by majority decision at the meeting.
He warned that the distribution mechanism established by the measure would "basically allow illegal migrants or the human traffickers who brought them to Europe to decide themselves who will live in Europe".
f member states decide they won't accept migrants, they will be required to pay the equivalent of around HUF 8 million per immigrant, he added.
Rétvári said "no progress" had been made on EU financing for border protection costs, even as Hungary had spent over EUR 1.5 billion on building up capacity.
He complained that some of the proposals decided at the meeting on Thursday had been distributed "minutes, at most half an hour" ahead of votes and called out "pro-migration governments" for "pressuring" other member states to approve the proposals.
The Council reached an agreement on the asylum and migration management regulation (AMMR) at the meeting on Thursday. The AMMR "establishes a new migration management and solidarity mechanism which would assure a more even distribution of migrants across the EU", the Council said.
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