Government: EU siding with human smugglers, no rush to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Monday said it was “amazing” that “certain European politicians” were “still on the side of migrants, who frequently fire shots at Hungary’s southern border” and they were also “on the side of people smugglers”.
In response to the German foreign minister’s suggestion that asylum seekers arriving in the European Union should be distributed among the member states “in an orderly and fair way,” Szijjártó said: “Certain European politicians have been living in a state of delusion since 2015.”
In a Facebook post, the minister said the politicians in question persisted in arguing in favour of the acceptance and redistribution of migrants in the EU, “despite the extraordinary wave of migrants, parallel societies, no-go zones and aggressive pressure” of migrants at the border.
Migrants must be stopped at the border, not distributed, he said. “We should clear the air in Brussels and Berlin, and make clear that crossing the border illegally is a serious crime that should be punished accordingly,” Szijjártó said.
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Orbán: Hungary in no rush to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid
Hungary is in no rush to ratify Sweden’s NATO accession, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told opposition lawmakers on Monday. Sweden’s security is not under any threat, and there is no strategic element of Swedish-Hungarian relations that would be harmed if Hungary demands respect from Sweden before approving its bid, the prime minister said in response to opposition rebuttals to his speech opening parliament’s autumn session.
Referring to a video recently presented in Swedish schools on Hungarian democracy, Orbán said the government “doesn’t care what kind of films they make”, but did care about what Swedish school children were taught about Hungary “because that is a question of state politics”. Meanwhile, he said the outcome of the war in Ukraine was “not an a la carte menu”, calling the idea that Russia would reach Hungary’s border through military force “nonsense”. “There is no scenario that would lead to Hungary and Russia sharing a border again, because Hungary is a member of NATO,” he said.
How many human smugglers did the Hungarian government release from jail to send into Europe to cause a bigger crisis? What did the Austrian government do in response? Are people that stupid to listen to Szijjarto?
Why should Hungary keep smugglers in jail when the EU encourages human smuggling? Sweden does not deserve Hungary’s support for even an animal control officer. Sweden is a bad example of a government by the people and for the people and not for illegal, uneducated criminal illegal migrants. Sweden used to be a great country.
Mr. Orban’s second main reason that there is no hurry to back Sweden is, no one is threatening Sweden. Actually, there is internal danger from illegal aliens but that is no reason to join NATO.
@mariavontheresa – if this is your cynical view, why on Earth would you want to arrest the smugglers in the first place? Royal waste of resource in this train of thought.
The latest on Sweden, should you be interested:
https://www.government.se/government-policy/migration-and-asylum/
Re Sweden “not deserving support” – that is a slippery slope, if this standard ever gets applied to us. We could be out of parts and support for our air force, if we go tit-for-tat. Notwithstanding Mr. Orbán’s ridiculous claim, Hungary could just switch to other aircraft if it could no longer lease the planes from Sweden. Everyone is upping the game on defense spending. Take a number and be prepared to wait for the babies to arrive, then train your 2-3 pilots and 25-30 mechanics per plane at significant expense on the new platform (figure 5-9 months). If it were that easy, there would already be US produced planes in the skies over Ukraine!
At least Türkiye is transactional about signing off on entry, instead of squirming around, finding new reasons to punt the decision off. Oh, other than getting the new planes made, Türkiye will need a lot of tech support on those planes, for which we would compete in Mr. Orbán’s cunning air force Plan B;
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/world/europe/sweden-nato-turkey-fighter-jets.html
Re “no one is threatening Sweden”, perhaps a bit of empathy from a very safe Canada is in order. The Baltic States, Finland, Poland, and Sweden all perceive a looming threat from Mr. Putin’s Russia. In fact, Hungary joined NATO to be under its security umbrella. We could have remained neutral, we decided we would be better off joining the Organization. Safety and security is about perception, and I believe it is fair to say that all Russia’s neighbors are scared.
@mariavontheresa, developing story:
https://www.dagens.com/news/lavrov-furious-points-out-russias-biggest-enemy-in-the-north
2 guesses who Mr. Lavrov is singling out? Sweden … “American Puppets!”