Too early to start tearing down border fences, Hungary’s foreign minister tells German daily
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Berlin, April 6 (MTI) – It would be too early to start tearing down border fences throughout Europe, regardless of the EU-Turkey migrant deal, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó told German language business daily Handelsblatt in an interview on Wednesday.
The agreement with Turkey is very important, but Europe cannot rely on it as the sole measure to end the migrant crisis, Szijjártó said.
Europe should continue strengthening its external borders and at the same time cooperate with Libya, Jordan and the Kurdish region of Iraq, he said. The EU must make sure that countries it provides aid to do not become sending countries in the migrant crisis.
Szijjártó said there were 30 to 35 million people living in war zones or extreme poverty in Europe’s neighbouring regions who could decide to set off for the continent at any given time. This means migration will be a long-term challenge for Europe, and it must be prepared for more migration waves and migrants finding new routes into the EU, he said.
Hungary finds it unacceptable that certain people believe they can cross the country’s border whenever or wherever they please, the minister said.
Szijjártó said he found it particularly “shocking” that certain European leaders criticised other EU member states for respecting the bloc’s laws.
Asked if he was referring to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Szijjártó declined to mention names.
Szijjártó said that before starting construction on the border fence, Hungary had asked the relevant EU authorities whether member states could derogate from some of their legal obligations in “emergency situations”, but was told that it was to continue observing all EU regulations regardless of the massive inflow of migrants. Hungary was therefore left with no choice but to erect a fence on its border to stem the migration flow, he insisted.
Here we have the true intent of the German super state that of creating a United States of Europe with no internal borders together with total freedom of movement within. What they and Merkal want to do is to insert the 38 million displaced persons now waiting outside of the EU borders into the EU on a forced quota system.
This new population would not share our European culture and would owe their allegence to their benefactors the EU state.
So, where is the democracy in this? the will of the people? do we want to wake up and find a total alien society within our borders who do not either understand our 2000 years of culture nor want to mix with us, only to take jobs and our social security?.
As neither Mrs Merkel nor the EU have failed to sort this crisis out to date how on earth do they expect to cope with forced migrant settlement within the EU who do not want this?.