Orbán outraged: “we don’t want migrant ghettos”

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an interview with public radio on Friday, said: “We don’t want either migrant quotas or migrant ghettos.”

“All we Hungarians can say that we consider the risk of the country’s deterioration to be so great that we don’t want either migrant quotas or migrant ghettos, and if we don’t want them, we won’t have them,” the prime minister said.

Orbán said it was an “unexpected coincidence” that Italy, a country which had long opposed mandatory migrant quotas and the creation of “migrant ghettos”, had changed its position and accepted the new proposal; and just a few weeks later, Italy received 19 billion euros from the European Union’s post-pandemic recovery fund from which Hungary was not getting its share.

“There are complicated games being played in the background; I don’t believe in these,” he said, adding that migration was not a tactical or strategic issue “but rather a historical one” which should be treated as such.