Foreign Ministers of Denmark and Hungary meet to discuss stopping illegal migration

Hungary and Denmark are committed to a strict immigration policy, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said in Copenhagen at a joint press conference held with Danish counterpart Lars Løkke Rasmussen on Monday, adding that during its EU presidency Hungary would prioritise stopping illegal migration.

Szijjártó said improving Europe’s security and competitiveness would be the chief aims of its presidency.

The minister said that as long as Europe continued to act as a magnet to migrants, security challenges would mount up, with organised crime and terrorism gaining ground.

He added that Hungary’s strict immigration policy is based on strong border protection and stopping migration instead of managing it.

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Migrants, he said, should only be allowed to enter Europe if they are legal, and help should be given at the location of the problem rather than the problem being imported.

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Africa’s population, he said, was on track to grow by an estimated 750 million in the next twenty years, and jobs, health care, and education must be made available to these people.

The minister said, “We’ll find ourselves facing a challenge we’re unable to meet” unless such conditions are provided.

Szijjártó hailed Denmark’s immigration policy, saying the country was one of the very few countries in the EU that showed “common sense” on migration.

Meanwhile, he said Hungary and Denmark were both successful export-oriented economies, “so it’s in our common interest that world trade should be free of barriers as well as fair”.

Szijjártó called for the EU to accelerate free trade negotiations with rapidly growing states such as those in South-East Asia.