Foreign minister welcomes Donald Tusk’s statement about mandatory migrant quotas

Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, has welcomed that European Council President Donald Tusk had recently qualified the mandatory migrant resettlement quotas as “ineffective and divisive”.

“It is a gratifying development that finally there is a senior European politician, the president of the European Council, namely Europe’s top leader, who finally declares the truth, which is already known to all. The mandatory migrant resettlement quota is ineffective and divisive, and forcing immigration is dangerous,” Szijjártó said in San Francisco, where he is holding talks with local business executives and representatives of the Hungarian community.

“Illegal immigration should be halted rather than organised. Some bureaucrats in Brussels, however, are organising and encouraging the inflow of illegal migrants in Europe, which is dangerous to the continent and its population. The mandatory quotas run totally counter to common sense and the European rules,” Szijjártó said.