Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio on Friday that Hungary has been telling all of Europe, including Germany, since 2015 that migration is dangerous and "we must protect ourselves against it".
Commenting on Thursday’s car-ramming attack in Munich where an Afghan asylum seeker ploughed into a crowd of people, PM Orbán said: "It often happens that you’re not happy that you and up being right. This is one of those situations."
PM Orbán said Hungary had been telling not just Germany but all of Europe since 2015 "not to lose their common sense in connection with migration". "Hungary has had its feet on the ground from the very first moment and knew that this is a danger we must protect ourselves from," he added.
"What we’re happy about is that we’ve stayed out of this," PM Orbán said, adding that migration was "a European disease" that had not spread to Hungary.
The prime minister said migration also raised a "problem of democracy" in Germany, arguing that some 70 percent of Germans wanted a tighter immigration policy, but the country’s elected leaders had rejected this in a parliamentary debate.
"The democratic system can’t handle such a disagreement; someone has to yield, and it’s more likely that the leadership will have to adapt," he said.