PM Viktor Orbán: Hungary among best-protected EU states from migration

Budapest, March 4 (MTI) – Hungary was the first nation state that took action independently to handle illegal migration and it is still among the best-protected EU states, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday.

Individual countries taking action independently is better than the European Community staying idle, Orbán told public radio Kossuth. Orbán said all the costs of protecting Hungary from migrants have been paid from domestic resources and the EU has not contributed to this. He reiterated that Hungary would not allow migrants to enter without control.

“There will be no breaking through the fence here, no migrant revolts, refugee camps set on fire, or gangs preying on Hungarian women, our wives and daughters,” he said. He added that he had instructed Interior Minister Sándor Pintér that if there is any sign of such activity it must be prevented at the earliest stage and it must be retaliated.

Commenting on efforts to seal Hungary’s border from illegal entrants, he said the physical barriers have proved successful but the fence system must be further strengthened and expanded. Preparations need to be made on the Hungarian-Romanian border, and “we must be able to physically protect” the border on its entire length if there is trouble, he added.

He said he was baffled by Greece’s decision to tolerate millions of uncontrolled entrants from Turkey. It is also impossible to understand why the Greek transferred the migrants from the islands to the main land, he added. Greece has violated the Schengen treaty, yet “some people”, for instance the Germans, kept defending them, Orbán said.