Subscribe to our social channels to get the latest news about Hungary!
Kövér addresses house speakers on migration at CoE conference
Change language:
Budapest, September 15 (MTI) – The parliaments of Council of Europe (CoE) member states have a responsibility in dealing with the migration crisis, but there is a lack of consensus on the issue, Hungarian Speaker of Parliament László Kövér said, addressing a CoE conference in Strasbourg on Thursday.
Addressing speakers of parliaments, Kövér said the crisis has shed light more than ever on the inadequacies of the European community and its institutional systems.
“If we are unable to put brakes on this crisis, it could easily mean an end to the European world as it is known today, as it is enjoyed by many,” he said.
Kövér said there is no consensus in Europe on migration, “not on a solution, but not even on what the problem is”. Instead there are decisions which are pushed forward without a consensus to support them, like the European Commission’s migrant resettlement quota plan, he added.
Kövér said the majority of the 1.5 million migrants who have crossed into Europe are, in legal terms, not refugees. Each country has a sovereign right to decide whether or not to accept migrants on its territory. Those states which decide to open their borders to migrants should not be trying to “use legal tricks to distribute excess numbers of migrants to other countries, using blackmail and exerting pressure,” he said.
The position of Hungary’s government is that the wave of illegal migrants in Europe is a threat to the community’s economic, social and political stability and undermines its security while also threatening to tip the continent’s ethnic, cultural and religious balance. Partly as a result of flawed policies, this mass migration will not stop by itself, therefore, it has to be stopped, he said. Hungary’s fence is a good example that borders can be protected and the number of entrants reduced if there is a political will, he added.
Reading the Hungarian Speaker of Parliament, Mr Laszlo Kover’s address, as presrened here, to the Council of Europe, one can only say simply that Hungary is the only country that can see the ”wood for the trees” !!
He points out many features of the growing pains of EU – significantly “certain left-wing Western European and Central European politicians”
illegal immigration is what has confronted the EU ! and it is this failure to protect “All” its members by a total lack of decisive, indeed faulty leadership, and to protect the historical cultural links of all its members against a cultural intrusion, that is in chaos in much of the world today !
If Hungary’s leaders, are seen to be aware of such danger, and speak out forthrightly ! its because they are above all the “Realists” in a world of confusion of ideas of weakness and indecision.
I stand with Hungary and the Visegrad Group !
John H. Morton.