Hungarian government to make proposals on handling migration to Slovak EU Presidency – UPDATE

Budapest, November 3 (MTI) – The Hungarian government will send its proposals on handling illegal migration to the Slovak EU Presidency, which is preparing a Plan B for resolving the crisis, government office chief János Lázár said on Thursday.

Addressing his regular weekly press conference, Lázár said the key points of the recommendations are that there should be no mandatory resettlements, that the Schengen border control system should be restored in Italy and Greece and that Hungary’s spending on fence building should be acknowledged as part of its “solidarity” efforts.

In order to pursue this “battle” (against migration), Hungary needs to amend its constitution, and the motion on this is expected to be voted on by lawmakers next Tuesday, after the codification of the bill is completed. Lázár said he urges all opposition lawmakers to vote for passing the amendment.

Commenting on a recent report by the Council of Europe claiming that Hungarian authorities have not given refugees acceptable treatment, Lazar said the government thinks the report is “a lie”. “The reported statements are false,” Lázár said, adding that the document is politically biased.

UPDATE

The government had asked the justice ministry on several occasions to examine the complaints Hungary was given in connection with the treatment of migrants. The ministry said the complaints and statements were untrue, he said.

Commenting on unconfirmed press reports that the “far-right militant group” led by the suspect in last week’s shooting of a police officer in north-western Hungary had organised training exercises for Russian secret service agents, Lázár said those reports should be looked into by parliament’s national security committee. Interior ministry officials will also have to brief the committee about their own findings in the case, he added.

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Asked if other “paramilitary” groups would be investigated, Lázár said that the state had regained the monopoly on the use of force when it outlawed the Hungarian National Guard, a uniformed far-right movement along with other paramilitary radical groups. The interior ministry has a workforce devoted solely to preventing the emergence of such groups, he added.