Fidesz: EU to import low and medium-skilled workers from the Middle East and Africa
Balázs Hidvéghi, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, on Wednesday criticised what he called “an immoral new push by pro-migration forces to promote legal migration” after a European parliamentary debate on the creation of new legal channels for labour migration into the bloc.
Hidvéghi told Hungarian reporters in Strasbourg that the proposals contained in the report at the centre of the debate would attract the most talented people to Europe, resulting in a brain drain in areas that are already in a difficult situation.
As the EU struggles with one of its gravest migration crises, the European Parliament is debating a report that would institutionalise migration with active collaboration from the European Commission, he said.
The report calls for promoting legal labour migration and the
import of low and medium-skilled workers from the Middle East and Africa,
Hidvéghi said. It also urges easing their movement within the bloc and making them eligible for benefits, he added.
But in Hungary’s experience, aid should be exported to where it is needed, the MEP said. The goal is not to empty out those areas but rather to create better living conditions for those living there, he added.
“There’s no need for Brussels to decide who should be admitted and what we should do with them,”
Hidvéghi said, adding this decision should remain in the hands of member states. Demographic and labour challenges should be addressed by implementing the kind of family policies introduced by the Hungarian government, he said.
Migráncs go home!
Mr. Hidvéghi is right! Why would lots of our (Hungarian) highly skilled youngsters all (legally) move abroad to work and only return for vacations? It’s because the EU and the Norwegians are not making our Country attractive, fast enough – and then there is this freedom of movement making labour migration far too easy! We deserve more EU funding!
Meanwhile, to quote from an article in the DNH on the 9th November, “On the top, there are the Ukrainians with more than 20,000. Meanwhile, the second place belongs to the Chinese (6,000). The third is Vietnam (more than 3,000), while Serbian citizens are in fourth place with two thousand. Turkish, Indian, US, Russian citizens received more than 1,000.”
The headline was “Hungary issued nearly 55,000 permanent residence permits for non-EU citizens in 2020”.
What the government says and what the government does should not be conflated.
The quickest way to tell the difference between Hungarians and home-grown or foreign anti-Hungarians is to observe how they relate to Hungarians who were forcibly handed over to countries that were gifted Hungarian territories by the infamous Treason treaty.
Hungarians would never refer to our fellow Hungarians who come here from Romania or Ukraine as Romanians or Ukrainians.
Their words betray them.
It must have been a Freudian slip when I accidentally wrote the “infamous Treason treaty” instead of “infamous Trianon treaty”.