Orbán cabinet: Hungary lets all migrants in if Brussels receive them
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If Brussels forces Hungary to let migrants in, then it must also welcome them, Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international relations and communications, said on the X platform on Wednesday.
For almost a decade, Hungary has protected the EU’s external border, spending more than 2 billion euros of its own money to meet its Schengen obligations, the state secretary said, citing a letter by Tamás Iván Kovács, Hungary’s ambassador to Belgium, to the Socialist mayor of Brussels, Phillippe Close.
“[I]t is Hungary, not Brussels, that has suffered from a lack of solidarity,” Kovács said, adding that all it got in return for rigorously protecting the EU border was a fine of 200 million euros.
“Hungary will not compromise its national security or bear this burden alone, especially when Brussels seems to desire migrants only as long as they remain in other EU member states,” he said, adding that the call for solidarity was not just rhetorical, but “a demand for fair treatment and genuine support from the EU”.
Technically, Hungary is not as much letting refugees and immigrants in as “through”. The Hungarian experience is that most of the refugees/immigrants who arrive in our Land of Milk and Honey usually immediately leave to other EU / Schengen countries….
Do not know if they travel all the way to Belgium, however they´re not sticking around, here in Hungary!
Regarding spending obscene amounts of money “protecting the border”, again, it may be useful to discuss this with the deemed “beneficiaries” BEFORE you spend. Remember the “Mexico will pay for the Wall!” guy? Who ended up paying for said bits of wall?