State Secretary Zoltán Kovács, the government’s international spokesman, said a recent move by Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party, was “nothing but another hypocritical attack on Hungary by the pro-war liberal European elite."
“Yet again, it is Manfred Weber who is attacking the Hungarian government, all the while his government and its political allies have poured millions of illegal migrants into Europe, exposing the continent’s states and the people of Europe to a grave threat to national and public security,” Kovács said on X. “This latest attack from Brussels is absurd and hypocritical because it is precisely the Brussels institutions and the EPP, in alliance with the liberal forces, that are doing everything in their power to ensure that Hungary is forced to dismantle its strict border protection and asylum system, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the country and thus into the European Union,” he said. “The Hungarian immigration regime is the strictest in the European Union. Guest workers are only allowed entry under a regulated framework, which includes a national security check, and they can stay for a limited period solely for employment purposes,” he said. Hungary will continue to protect its southern borders and maintain the strictest immigration regime in Europe, Kovács added.