Pintér: Schengen area must be treated as top priority by all EU member states
Interior Minister Sándor Pintér said the Schengen area is still under serious pressure from migration.
Interior Minister Sándor Pintér said the Schengen area is still under serious pressure from migration.
The prime minister vowed that Hungary would oppose "this plan by Brussels to delegate a government here".
In a recent interview with Kossuth Radio, Prime Minister Orbán laid out a series of challenges facing Hungary and Europe, highlighting tensions with Brussels.
The prime minister said they [the left] think democracy only exists as long as they win and ends as soon as the right wins.
"A war and fighting is currently underway at the EU borders, which makes it all the more important to fulfil Schengen expectations," Pintér said.
Prices of homes in Budapest averaged HUF 1,070,000/sqm at the start of October but were as high as HUF 1,730,000/sqm in central District V.
Andras Laszlo, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, said that the rule of law report "has become a political weapon and its own parody" which served mostly "to show us the [European] Commission's political approach towards individual governments".
The prime minister said the EU did not have a successful common migration policy and member states were trying to protect themselves individually.
László Kövér said Vojvodina Hungarians would be a link between Serbia and Hungary as well as Serbia and the EU.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said cooperation between the two countries had benefitted both in terms of ensuring energy supply.
"We promised to the Western Balkans countries twenty years ago that they will be given entry, and it is time to fulfil the promise," the prime minister said.
Some of the EU's measures have contributed to the formation of blocs and could pave the way for an "economic cold war", Minister Nagy said.
Hungary remains dedicated to the Schengen area, Bóka said, "which has unfortunately become fragmented" due to illegal migration as well as extended and widely introduced internal border controls.
Hungary has maintained EU caps, but the government decided to bring in stricter regulations.
8 October 2024, Strasbourg