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Balog: Hungary against migration, not migrants themselves
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Berlin, September 26 (MTI) – Hungary is not against migrants as individuals but rather against the global phenomenon of migration as a whole, Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview on Monday.
Balog said the problem of migration cannot be resolved the way the European Union and some other countries want it done. Hungary will continue to address the problems that trigger migration at the source, he said.
The minister said he had always pointed out that migrants are victims and that national security decisions should be made rationally and not based on hate.
He said the social integration of Hungary’s Roma community is a big enough task for the country that it would have a hard time dealing with the integration of migrants at the same time. The Roma integration strategy Hungary had put together in 2011 was applauded throughout Europe, he said, adding that it would “not be good” if Hungary had to suspend its Roma integration strategy.