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the Menedék Association, and the
Reformed Church which provide services
and legal aid.
The Hungarian government is currently
considering the implementation of a
pilot resettlement programme. In that
context, Hungary pledged to resettle
one family (5-8 persons) in 2012-
2013 from the North African region
as a response to the ‘Arab spring’. The
Hungarian government has not specified
resettlement criteria for this first
case but it is likely that refugee profiles
and countries of origin will be defined
according to the EU list of specific and
common resettlement prio-rities for
2013.
Before embarking in resettlement,
there is however an urgent need to
establish the necessary conditions for
refugee integration in Hungary and to
develop an adequate mechanism to
receive resettled or relocated refugees
prioritizing essential reception and
integration arrangements.
In addition to the resettlement discussions,
the Hungarian government
was part of the EUREMA project and
offered places for a family (5 persons)
from Malta in 2011.
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