Official: Hungary up to meeting new migration challenges

Hungary’s border fence and asylum laws are sufficient to meet migration-related challenges of the coming period, Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international communications, said in an interview published on Friday.

The government is ready to take further steps if needed, he told the daily Magyar Hírlap.

Kovács insisted that western European countries now contained parallel societies due to decades of immigration, “which has hardly been a success story”. “Most of the economic migrants” who settled in western Europe “did so illegally”, he added.

“Europe is now forced to face the harsh reality of hundreds of thousands of migrants trying to breach the EU’s external borders from the direction of Turkey and the Mediterranean,” he added, accusing the bloc of showing “helplessness and indecisiveness”.

Hungary’s recommendations for solutions to the problem have fallen on deaf ears, he said.

Brussels is still focused on finding a pan-European solution and wants to take over control of migration and asylum policy, Kovács said. “Obviously, this won’t work.”