Fidesz MEP calls for scrapping EU migration pact and lifting fines against Hungary
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Kinga Gál, the chair of the Fidesz-Christian Democrat European Parliament delegation, has called for “the bad EU migration pact” to be “chucked out” and for fines against Hungary for stopping migration to be lifted.
The outgoing European Commission’s “big mistake” was to force through the EU migration pact, Gál, who is also the first deputy leader of the Patriots for Europe group, told an international press conference on Wednesday, adding that the pact imposed “old and bad solutions” to problems of which the pact itself was a focal point.
She said mass illegal migration endangered Europeans, ruined the continent and compromised Schengen free movement. “Radical change is needed,” she declared.
Gál said protecting the external borders should be a priority, and she argued that asylum applications must be assessed beyond Europe’s borders. Also, she called for cooperation with countries from where migrants originate and travel through, while people who have no legal right to stay in the EU should be “sent back”.
The Fidesz politician said Hungary in 2015 had been the first EU member state to highlight the perils and unsustainability of mass illegal migration, and ever since the country had advanced proposals on how to strengthen and control the external borders and prevent irregular migration while putting its advice into practice.