Survey: Most Hungarians believe Brussels should contribute to border protection costs
Fully 76 percent of voting-age Hungarians said that the EU should contribute to the costs of border protection measures against illegal migration, according to a recent survey by the Center for Fundamental Rights released on Wednesday.
The survey shows that Hungarians continue to support border protection measures and expect Brussels to contribute to border protection costs, which the Hungarian state has spent 800 billion forints on since 2015, the think-tank said.
The survey also shows that 66 percent of respondents strongly reject as “unjust” the EU court’s 80 billion forint fine levied on Hungary and the additional 400 million forints the country is expected to pay for every subsequent day of non-compliance with the EU’s migration policy, it said.
The survey was conducted between 16 and 18 September with a representative sample of 1,000 adults.
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The disinformation campaign is working. Couple of sample additional questions could be: “Do you know of Frontex?” and “What does Frontex do?” and “How much does the EU currently allocate to border protection?” I think you´d get a lot of “nos” and general blank stares…
https://www.frontex.europa.eu/
Re spend and focus – this is already old (2002), however gives a flavor:
https://www.statewatch.org/publications/reports-and-books/at-what-cost-funding-the-eu-s-security-defence-and-border-policies-2021-2027/
The cost of border protection works out to a little over 2 million euros per year according to that nine year figure provided which is not a significant amount. That is about two days worth of fines for not paying Hungary’s bill for failing to comply with the EU court’s judgement.
Too many zeros with forints. That’s about 22 million euros per year which is 22 days worth of fines.