Orban: Hungary should consider letting migrants transit to Western Europe

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Brussels, September 24 (MTI) – Hungary will either protect its “green border” with fences or, “if this option is not that popular”, may let migrants pass through in the direction of Austria and Germany, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels in the early hours of Thursday, after attending an emergency summit on migration.

“The Austrian chancellor stated it unambiguously that if we are only able to halt migrants with a fence, we should rather let them through,” Orban told Hungarian reporters. “This is what we will have to consider,” he added.

Orban said the summiteers had come to terms on five of Hungary’s six proposals but failed to agree on the sixth one, namely that Greece should protect its borders in cooperation with the European Union if it is unable to do that alone.

“It is a pity because this was the most important proposal. In this sense, Europe’s external border is still not defended and the migrants breaking international agreements continue to come through Greece,” Orban said.

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  1. Hungary’s green border looks like a garbage tip ; human waste packaging everywhere and no one willing to help you with the cleaning. Suggest you sweep it up and send to Germany with a note saying : From Hungary with Love.

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