Meeting of EU foreign ministers: Coronavirus, migration resulting in ‘vicious circle’, says Szijjártó

The coronavirus epidemic and migration “make up a vicious circle” because “the more countries are hit by the virus the more people will set off and the more people leave their home the greater the risk of a spreading pandemic is,” Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a meeting of his European Union counterparts in Luxembourg on Monday.

On the sidelines of the meeting, Szijjártó told the Hungarian press that the world was about to face further waves of illegal migration since “all trends recently triggering migration waves have further strengthened”.

“We have a single task: to protect our citizens from the perils of further migration waves, and we must use every tool to stop migratory trends,” he said.

The minister said that the economic impact of the pandemic will contribute to a growing migration, adding that NATO’s pulling out of Afghanistan and the resulting increase in terrorism activities as well as “Brussels’s pro-migration policy” could also lead to another wave.