Hungary asks Brussels to enable restoring transit zones

Hungary will ask Brussels to amend European Union regulations in order to enable restoring transit zones for migrants, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Thursday.

Gergely Gulyás told a regular press briefing that Hungary would submit proposals at the two-day summit of EU leaders starting in Brussels on Thursday. Restoring transit zones is the most effective method of defending against migration, he said, adding that migration pressure had increased considerably.

According to the Hungarian proposal, all requests for refugee status should be assessed outside the EU

because it is very difficult to deport anyone who has already entered the bloc, he said.

More than 73 thousand illegal migrants wanted to breach the border fence this year!

Furthermore, Gulyás said that Hungary’s government opposes a tax Brussels wants to impose on home and car owners on the grounds of fighting climate change and is committed to protecting the achievements of its scheme to reduce household utility bills. Energy prices are soaring all across Europe, resulting in a “utility crisis,” Gergely Gulyás told a regular press briefing, adding that this will be the central topic at the upcoming two-day European Union summit.

Gulyás said rising global energy prices and the European Commission’s “poorly thought out”

energy policy were both to blame for the situation. He said the biggest danger was that the EC would push the price increases onto consumers by taxing home and car owners.

The Visegrád Group countries will veto and reject such a proposal, Gulyás said. Hungary’s government is firmly committed to protecting the achievements of its public utility cost reduction scheme, he added.