• Coronavirus in Hungary
  • Budapest
  • Hungary border control
  • HelloMagyar
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
EnglishFrenchGermanSpanish
Orbán: ‘No need for Frontex to protect border for us’ – EU summit in SalzburgOrbán: ‘No need for Frontex to protect border for us’ – EU summit in SalzburgOrbán: ‘No need for Frontex to protect border for us’ – EU summit in SalzburgOrbán: ‘No need for Frontex to protect border for us’ – EU summit in Salzburg
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Society
  • Sport
  • Culture
  • Special Hungary
  • News To Go
  • World
  • Contact Us
  • About us
  • About us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
✕
Breaking News
Support us
Daily News Daily News · 20/09/2018
· Politics

Orbán: ‘No need for Frontex to protect border for us’ – EU summit in Salzburg

Brexit European Commission European Union migration United Kingdom Viktor Orbán
Orbán Salzburg

Salzburg, 2018. szeptember 19. Orbán Viktor miniszterelnök érkezik a visegrádi országok (V4) kormányfõi találkozójára az EU csúcstalálkozója elõtt Salzburgban 2018. szeptember 19-én. MTI Fotó: Máthé Zoltán

“There is no need for Frontex to protect the Hungarian border in our place,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Salzburg on Thursday.

Arriving at a summit of European Union leaders, Orbán told journalists that the European Commission has put forward a proposal saying that “if there’s trouble”, national competencies should be “taken away from member states” and border protection should be managed by the EU.

Orbán said he had presented Hungary’s proposal on Wednesday to Austria which would “resolve this problem” by allowing member states to retain their right to protect their borders. The same proposal has already been presented to Bulgaria, he noted.

The prime minister called Frontex, the EU’s border agency, a “nice idea”, but said the agency had “never successfully protected a single metre of a border, while we have protected hundreds of kilometres”.

“There’s no need for them to protect the Hungarian border in our place, not to mention the questions of principle concerning the issue of sovereignty,” he said.

Orbán said this was the stance he would represent at the summit, adding that “there are more of us who oppose” the EC’s proposal.

“The status quo is on our side for now.”

On the subject of Brexit, the prime minister said Hungary believes the EU should not punish the United Kingdom. “A fair Brexit and good cooperation is needed between Britain and the European Union in the future,” he said.

Asked if he expected the Sargentini report, which the European Parliament passed last week, to come up during the summit, Orbán said: “Everyone just laughs at that.”

As we wrote before, Hungary’s government is taking its challenge against the European Parliament’s (EP) vote on the Sargentini report to the European Court of Justice, read more HERE.

Photo: MTI

Source: MTI

Brexit European Commission European Union migration United Kingdom Viktor Orbán
Share
Daily News
Daily News

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

SUPPORT US

Subscribe to our newsletter

Sign up to receive daily updates, news & stories about Hungary!

Select your location below or enter your country so we can deliver our morning newsletters to you in time.


Thank you!

You have successfully joined our subscriber list.


.

Latest news
  • Court: Hungary responsible for the death of a 22-year-old Syrian migrant
  • 510 EUR/month – would you work for that in Hungary as a university teacher?
  • Wizz Air considerably changed its summer schedule, ticket prices expected to grow
  • PHOTOS: you can meet with Hungarian international chess grandmaster here
  • Hungarians living in Ukraine in danger? Anti-Hungarian mood, enforced military conscriptions, atrocities
  • Orbán government moves away from Budapest
  • PHOTOS: Construction of the New National Gallery in Budapest can start soon
  • ‘Brussels bureaucracy’ attacking Hungary for political reasons?

About us

Contact us

Copyright rules

© 2023 DailyNewsHungary. All rights reserved! | Server and development by Svigelj Levente E.V