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.
Balázs Hidvéghi said Europe must fundamentally change its approach to migration in order to prevent further human tragedy on the Mediterranean.
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,...
Regarding migration, President Novák said Hungary was on the same page as Austria and that accepting and helping refugees was a humanitarian task.
The state secretary said illegal migration is picking up at Hungary’s border with 214,000 illegal entry attempts made so far this year.
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.
While Hungary has so far received 830,000 refugees from the east, it has also prevented 110,000 illegal migrants from entering the country from the south.
Saturday’s shooting near Subotica, Serbia, shows that the migration pressure has reached a new level of danger, with armed migrants becoming more aggressive and more violent.
Péter Szijjártó calls for greater border protection after illegal migration into the EU more than doubles this year.
The prime minister’s political director warns of an increase in illegal migrant crossings into Europe and suggests the conflict in Ukraine is intrinsically linked to the broader issue of illegal immigration.
Similar incidents have occurred at the Serbian border on several occasions over the past few years.
György Bakondi said that in the first days of January alone, 860 border violators have been detained.
The PM said that those currently in power in Brussels wanted a German-controlled European state, “unlike us, who insist on the existence of nation states making up Europe”.