Hungary border fence to be fortified
The government will fortify the fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia, an interior ministry official said in the border town of Röszke on Friday.
Hungary is increasing the height of its border fence so that Europe does not have to bring back internal border controls, state secretary Bence Rétvári told a press conference. If Hungary did not protect its border, numerous European countries would have to reinstate checks on their borders, which would not only be an inconvenience when travelling but would also hurt the European economy, he said.
Though the fence on the Hungary-Serbia border also protects the security of Europe and Europeans, the European Union has not even reimbursed 2 percent of the 600 billion forints (EUR 1.5bn) it cost to build it, Rétvári said.
He said Hungary was a net contributor to the EU, arguing that it fulfilled all its payment obligations, while the EU was “using various procedures to block funds we are entitled to”.
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Source: MTI
Hungary and Hungarians sacrificed billions to protect EU’s southern border. Since the EU will not help finance the border protection and Hungary can ill afford to keep spending on border security, the whole southern border should be land mined. During the Russian occupation, Hungary’s borders were land mined. It cut down the cost of border protection.
Total nonsense. Hungary a NET CONTRIBUTOR to the EU? How exactly does Mr. Rétvári’s calculation work? Since our accession, all the EU has been doing is sending funds – a lot of cash.
Her’s a dare: for each year of EU membership, list Hungary’s economic growth and put the EU net contribution next to it. #eyeopener
Norbert’s remark does not make sense. EU companies have made tons of money in Hungary, money that was removed instead of reinvested. It is naive to only compare money paid and money received. Let’s face it the EU is tired of illegal migrants. The EU does not want more illegals. The illegal migrants have put great strains on every country’s budget, eg. now it takes 1/2 hr. or more to get an ambulance in the UK for stroke and heart attack patients. Money spent on illegal migrants could have been spent on acquiring more ambulances and staff. Many of the illegal aliens to EU are uneducated with totally different cultural backgrounds that do not allow for assimilation, result is no go zones.
Hungary is paying a high price for stopping the invasion of the EU. If there is a cheaper way to enforce border security, the security of the Hungarian people and security of the EU countries it should be used.
Ukrainians leaving their country are true refugees and should be helped to our best ability.
@mariavontheresa – funnily enough regarding the UK (no longer EU), 75% of all the people arriving “irregularly” in boats are eventually actually granted asylum … And on the legal migration side, they’ve relaxed the visa rules, again.
Facts are nice: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-june-2022/irregular-migration-to-the-uk-year-ending-june-2022
More data: https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fgovernment%2Fuploads%2Fsystem%2Fuploads%2Fattachment_data%2Ffile%2F1098060%2Fasylum-applications-datasets-jun-2022.xlsx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK
Regarding “importing” people – https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Fertility_statistics
The fertility rate in the EU is TOO LOW – and an aging population is a big issue. This article actually does a good job at explaining this:
https://insights.theasianparent.com/declining-fertility-rates
Lastly – please do point out these “no go” zones – I travel extensively, I’d love to actually experience one (Facebook, old infowars.com, Breitbart content, Trump tweets and the widely discredited 2016 Hungarian government paper do not count).
Fun read – https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/paris-mayor-to-sue-fox-over-no-go-zone-comments/384656/ – includes the Fox News public apology for their “No Go Zone” claims – and Fox is generally … Unapologetic.