Barna Pál Zsigmond, parliamentary state secretary for EU affairs, said the Hungarian European Union presidency brought common sense to Brussels. While Europe is still under migration pressure, the problems can at last be addressed thanks to the Hungarian EU presidency, he added.
The state secretary said Hungary's program had given "real answers to real problems", adding that Hungary's was the "most successful EU presidency ever".
The official also noted Hungary's efforts towards boosting the bloc's competitiveness, strengthening its defence industry, promoting enlargement and a farmer-focused agricultural policy. But combatting irregular migration and protecting the external borders was its top priority, he added.
The state secretary said Hungary had always taken a common-sense and prudent stance on the issue of migration.
He said the EU's migration pact was a "flawed legal document" that insisted on "quotas and migrant ghettos". Instead of stopping illegal migration the policies encouraged it, he insisted.
With the recent terrorist attacks, illegal migration was increasingly seen as a security risk, he said, arguing that effective action included protecting the external borders, operating an expulsion system and combatting human smugglers. All this was possible with a "right-wing turn in Brussels and member states", he added.
Hungary, he declared, would not turn into "an immigration country", and 2025 would herald change in this respect.
György Bakondi, the prime minister's chief advisor on domestic security, said that the situation in 2024 had remained unchanged in terms of where migrants were coming from and activity of human smugglers, adding that Soros NGOs continued to finance migration.
He also referred to "no-go zones", severe terrorist acts and widespread violence against women. The left-liberal media, he said, paid scant attention to this.