Migration

MEP: Pro-migration forces making "putsch-like" attempt to push through EU migration package

Fidesz MEP Balázs Hidvéghi said efforts were underway to set up a system that would be a return to the quota system “that failed years ago”.

State Secretary: Approval of migrant distribution plan shows worst side of Brussels politics

A new plan would require member states that refuse to accommodate migrants to pay an equivalent of 8 million forints (EUR 22,000) per migrant.

Fidesz MEP: The European Union could not handle the migration crisis

Balázs Hidvéghi said that eight years after the crisis the European Parliament is still talking about the need to increase European solidarity and help with the placement and distribution of immigrants.

Fidesz MEP: EU needs to introduce new migration policy focused on border protection

Balázs Hidvéghi said Europe must fundamentally change its approach to migration in order to prevent further human tragedy on the Mediterranean.

MEP: Time has proven PM Orbán right in debate around migration

Balázs 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”.

President Novák: Europe needs open internal and secure external borders

Regarding migration, President Novák said Hungary was on the same page as Austria and that accepting and helping refugees was a humanitarian task.

Rétvári: Efforts of Hungarian border protection authorities "exemplary"

The state secretary said illegal migration is picking up at Hungary’s border with 214,000 illegal entry attempts made so far this year.

Over 17,000 refugees arrived in Hungary on Sunday alone

Border control has apprehended 157,000 illegal entrants in 2022

György Bakondi told public television that the number of people smugglers detained had doubled, to nearly 1,000, while the migrants they had helped cross the border had tripled.