BRUSSELS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Hungary has the right to organise a referendum on migrant quotas, Klaas Dijkhoff, migration minister for the Netherlands, which currently holds the European Union's rotating presidency, said on Thursday.
"Every country has the right to organise referenda. It seems to be quite popular these days on European issues," Dijkhoff told reporters in Brussels ahead of a EU justice and home affairs ministers' meeting.
The Hungarian government announced on Wednesday that it will call a referendum on the European Union's mandatory quotas on migrants, in a move that has irked Brussels.
"I don't think there is a prohibition on referenda in European law," Dijkhoff said. "First of all we have to see if there is a referendum, what the question will be, what the result will be and then what the government will take back to the European table."