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Chief Security Advisor: Migrant crisis has worsened this year
Hungary’s chief security advisor György Bakondi said the European migration situation has not abated this year, but has worsened compared with last year.
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Chief Security Advisor warns that we must avoid a scenario where masses set out for Europe
György Bakondi stressed that if further tens and hundreds of thousands set out from Turkey, ever more people will be waiting at one European border section or another in order...
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György Bakondi: It is a pretense to say there is no migration
György Bakondi stressed that there is still an immigrant problem on the Serbian and Croatian borders. “A significant amount of people want to cross the borders," he said
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Spain and Greece don't maintain Schengen border controls, says security advisor
György Bakondi says other member states are compelled to maintain controls in the interest of their countries' security.
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Number of migrants stranded in Bosnia-Herzegovina has ballooned, says chief security advisor
György Bakondi stressed that with the Hungarian border closed, migrants aiming to reach the EU turned to the route through Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia
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Chief security advisor says protecting the population is of primary importance
György Bakondi stressed the importance of protecting Hungary via a telephone statement following the UN’s High-Level Conference on Counter-Terrorism in New York
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Chief Security Advisor: Hungary is ready to help protect the borders of countries along the new migration route
György Bakondi said Hungary will send police units if necessary and be on hand if needed
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Chief Security Advisor: Hungary’s effective border control system would become unlawful under EU proposal
Hungary’s chief security advisor has said the introduction of a common EU asylum procedure would make the existing Hungarian procedure impossible
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Chief security advisor says that the year ahead will be a critical one in terms of security
György Bakondi has said that while the security situation in Hungary improved over the course of 2017, it gradually deteriorated throughout the rest of Europe
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Hungary's chief security advisor says migrant crisis shows no signs of ending
György Bakondi said more people are arriving from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sub-Saharan Africa, but are not fleeing war and are setting out for Europe in the hope of a better life because of economic problems in their homeland
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Hungary's chief security advisor says the negative effects of the migration process have become commonplace in Europe
The Hungarian government has been consistently enforcing its measures and laws aimed at assuring security in the interests of protecting Hungarian and European citizens
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Delegation travels to Washington to showcase Hungary’s standpoint on security and illegal immigration
Zoltan Kovács was joined by György Bakondi for three days of talks and briefings with members of the US administration, lawmakers, political analysts and journalists
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Hungary supports assisting those who are truly eligble for asylum
The pressure from illegal migration is still not receding, and in fact a significant increase is being observed along both the Mediterranean migrating route and from Morocco to Spain