Orbán’s cabinet: Brussels openly ‘applying double standards’
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Budapest, April 20 (MTI) – The European Union is openly applying double standards in its dealings with Hungary, government office chief János Lázár told a weekly press briefing on Thursday.
While praising Austria for controlling European citizens crossing its borders and curbing their right to free movement, the EU wants to punish Hungary for “trying to control illegal migrants at its borders, thus reducing the threat of terrorism”.
Lázár rejected commentary in the international press comparing the Hungarian facilities to Nazi death camps in transit zones set up along the Hungary-Serbia border. He insisted that Hungary’s authorities were “doing everything” to create decent circumstances for migrants in these zones. He called it “astonishing” that “this same international community cheered” when container cities were set up to accommodate migrants in Calais.
“If there are containers in Hungary, that is a bad thing, but if there are containers in France, that is a good thing; if there are border checks in Hungary, again that is bad, but having border checks at Hungary’s borders with Austria is praiseworthy,” Lázár said.
On the topic of illegal migration, Lázár said Hungary’s chances were “mixed” and the European Commission, “with the European Court’s assistance”, may force Hungary to accept its scheme. In this case, Hungary would either have to accept migrants without the Hungarian people’s consent or the country would have to pay a heavy fine, he said.
Lázár announced that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would take part at the extraordinary session of the European Council called for April 29 to discuss Brexit. He will also attend a meeting of the European People’s Party. Further consultations about whether Orbán will also pay a visit to the European Parliament will be held on Monday, he added.
Responding to a question about the recent ruling by the Strasbourg court in connection with the case of two Bangladeshi asylum seekers who were detained and deported in 2015, Lazar said the Hungarian government would appeal the court’s decision. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered Hungary to pay the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, which represented the two asylum seekers, 2.7 million forints (EUR 8,700) in legal fees. Lázár said the money would be paid to the NGO which enjoyed the “intensive support” of US financier George Soros and which sought out “clients” among migrants on the border with the aim of launching lawsuits against Hungary, Lázár said, adding that it “appeared to be a model that works”.
I am not surprised that Hungary is extremely tired of the EU and the liberal media. One should point out, why should Hungary take migrants when the rest of Europe did not (the hundred and sixty thousand agreed upon)? Why should Hungary not use containers altered to house migrants, Greece, France use it. Does the liberal media feels that the old factory in Serbia is better? Does the liberal media see the difference in countries that accepted a large number of migrants and the terror attacks and rapes that keep occurring there, why would they think that the Hungarian people should live under the same condition of fear? Why does the liberal media not acknowledge that the Muslim immigrants in France, Belgium and other countries do not integrate into society and want to change the existing society to the one they left behind such as gender separation, lack of respect for Western women, and genital mutilation? Hungary does not have anything to apologize for treatment of migrants. The EU should apologize for throwing Hungary to the wolves in 2015 when it allowed 400 thousand people to invade Hungary.