Foreign minister: EU pledges solidarity to Greece

The European Union has pledged its full solidarity to Greece, which is facing massive pressure due to migrants arriving from Turkey, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said on Friday in Zagreb, after an extraordinary session of EU foreign ministers.

Szijjártó noted that during debates on the 2015 migration crisis, “Hungary was savaged in the strongest possible terms when we talked about having to protect our borders, build a fence and send soldiers and policemen to the border to protect the country.” Hungary was subjected to the harshest political attacks and compared with the darkest dictatorships of the 20th century, he noted.

Hungary’s stance has since become mainstream in Europe, as the “EU was speaking today about the protection of its external borders, resistance to migration pressure and supporting the fight against illegal border crossings,” Szijjártó said.

Szijjártó insisted that after five years, “the EU finally grasped that Europeans and European security needs to be protected.”