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The conservative government, lead by 53-year-old Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, has outlined new proposals which look likely to put it on a direct collision course with the European Union. Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office János Lázár, 41, has announced the move which will deny refugees free movement within the country while their case is being decided. Under the current system of “open camps” asylum seekers are free to leave, go on walks, attend religious services and go to pre-approved Hungarian national events.

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But Mr Lázár’s office has now announced it intends to make changes to the system that will see free movement strictly forbidden. However, no detailed policy on how exactly this will be achieved has not been released. The controversial move will put it in direct contravention of EU law.

Getty 'Detention camps' could be introduced for asylum seekers in Hungary

Marta Pardavi, co-chair of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee a human rights organisation, said: "Automatic detention for the full length of the asylum procedure is absolutely not in accordance with EU law or the Strasbourg case law." EU law dictates that the detention of applicants should be applied in accordance with the "underlying principle that a person should not be held in detention for the sole reason that he or she is seeking international protection”. The ruling also adds that in cases where detention is pessary during the application process, countries must take "concrete and meaningful steps to ensure that the time needed to verify the grounds for detention is as short as possible”. Detention must “not exceed the time reasonably needed to complete the relevant procedures”.

Getty Migrants stopped at the Hungarian border fence

Mr Orbán has taken a hardline and controversial stance over migrants and asylum seekers, overseeing a huge crackdown on the issue and has described them as “poison” and a “terror risk”. One suggestion Mr Orbán had for helping the migrant situation in Europe was to send every one of them to camps outside Hungary, such as “a coastal area in north Africa”. He constructed a huge border wall to prevent people from travelling north from Greece and is currently taking Brussels to court over an attempt to impose fines due to him refusing to accept migrant quotas.

Powerful images as migrants protest in Hungary Tue, April 4, 2017 Migrants protest outside Budapest's Keleti Railway Station after it was closed off by police to prevent people travelling on to western Europe Play slideshow REUTERS 1 of 53 A migrant taunts Hungarian riot police as they fire tear gas and water cannon on the Serbian side of the border, near Roszke

Just two days ago he attacked the EU’s migrant policy for inviting “mass rape and terror” during a service in honour of the graduates of the new border patrol police. He said: ”Grim times demand brave and dedicated people. "The naivety, the illusions and the age of laxity in Europe are over.

Getty Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken a hardline stance against asylum seekers

"Terror attacks, riots, ethnic and cultural collisions - all warning us that those who come do not want to live the way we do. "Because of people like you, we do not have terrorism, we do not have mass rapes. Nobody drives trucks into celebrating masses." Mr Lázár, the former leader of the right-wing Fidesz parliamentary group, has had a controversial past.

Getty Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Janos Lázár has made the announcement

In May 2014 he was accused of travelling using the government’s budget by the Hungarian news website Origo. Mr Lázár eventually paid back 2 million forints (£5,714) to the state. Steve Symonds, Director of Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Programme, said: “Hungary has already made it extremely difficult for refugees and migrants to enter the country and has made life miserable for those who do.