“Time has proven the Hungarian prime minister right in the debate around migration,” Balázs Hidvéghi, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, said in Strasbourg on Wednesday.
According to MTI, Hidvéghi said that in 2015 Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had been “the first European leader to realise and stress that the borders must be protected, by erecting a fence, if necessary, and he actually had such a fence built”. “We can now see that more and more European leaders, even politicians in Brussels have started stressing the importance of border protection,” Hidvéghi said. The MEP welcomed that the heads of state and government at the latest EU summit concluded that the community’s external borders should be reinforced.