Fidesz MEP: Hungary won’t tolerate migrant ghettos

Hungary will not tolerate migrant ghettos on its territory, Fidesz MEP Balázs Hidvéghi told Hungarian journalists in Strasbourg on Wednesday after a European Parliament plenary debate, adding that other European Union member states were not adequately protecting the EU’s borders.

After the debate on the new EU asylum and migration package, the Fidesz politician said Hungary rejected the mandatory distribution and resettlement of migrants based on quotas, while other EU members were determined to have multiculturalism “at all costs” and impose illegal immigration on others.

Migration, he said, was now Europe’s “biggest crisis” and threatened the bloc’s most basic values and achievements such as the Schengen borders that ensure free movement within the EU. Also, public safety and everyday welfare were at risk, he said, adding that illegal migration jeopardised European culture and the European way of life.

French National Rally MEP Jean-Paul Garraud told Hungarian journalists that the EU asylum package threatened member states’ sovereignty and right to take measures to stop mass migration. He said attacks against Hungary and Poland “must be stopped”, adding that the two countries represented their peoples’ interests.