Jobbik MEP Gyöngyösi: Has Europe learnt a lesson about migration?
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Remarks of Jobbik MEP Gyöngyösi
Although the European Union is often rightfully criticized for being cumbersome and lagging behind international events, I think it’s important to take note of the achievements, too. One such achievement is that the EU didn’t repeat the mistakes of the 2015 migration crisis. When the Belarusian dictator released the crowd on the Polish border to try and blackmail Europe, he was surprised to see it wouldn’t work. Europe has learnt its lesson.
2015 is certainly a turning point in the area of European migration policy. Until then, you were not supposed to have any other opinion than the commonly held idea that the relatively rich European countries are morally obligated to let in whoever arrives at their border, regardless of the reason why they came. However, the combined effect of the German government’s misguided policy, the consequences of the Arab Spring and the advancing Islamic State led to the emergence of an unprecedented migration wave.
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The uncontrolled crowd flowing across the EU borders and the subsequent wave of terrorist acts that shook Western Europe have shown us that if Europe fails to change its position, it could create a huge crisis.
Belarusian dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka may likely have been counting on a similar crisis and expecting the European politicians to point fingers at each other, when he artificially tried to create yet another migration crisis on Poland’s border as a response to the sanctions imposed on his country. However, the EU reacted completely differently than it did six years ago. While most of Europe’s key political players had nothing against crowds of people entering the EU across the Schengen border with no control whatsoever back in 2015 (in fact, many of them even encouraged these people on the grounds of some misunderstood humanitarian idea), today we have a consensus inasmuch that the Polish border must be sealed and protected.
If it is OK for EU to stop migrants getting into Poland why are you still criticising Viktor Orban for doing the same thing??
Orban realised the danger long before anyone else and the result is that Hungary is a much safer country than those countries who imported the migrants!