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The European Union has 440 kilometers of external border and 7,500 kilometers of internal border. It is obvious that the shorter one must be protected against illegal migration, and Hungary has shown how to defend its southern border, Bence Rétvári stressed on Thursday.
The Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior made the statement after attending the latest meeting of the European Union’s Justice and Home Affairs Council, where a video was shown about the attacks on police officers protecting Hungary’s southern border by illegal migrants armed with knives and firearms.
Hungarian border protection has proven that it works, but it will only protect the whole of Europe if it cannot be bypassed,
he added.
The state secretary noted that they tried to dissuade the Hungarian delegation from showing the video, but they watched it anyway, and afterwards there was “stunned silence.” Several of them took photos of scenes of migrants throwing things at police officers, trying to disarm their cars with ladders, holding firearms, machetes, and knives, he added.
“What is happening on our southern border is not in the newspapers in Western Europe, and what is not in the newspapers does not exist for decision-makers.” “Yet,” Bence Rétvári continued, “those who voted for the migration pact and later the crisis regulation were sitting in the meeting.”
The video was also astonishing for them because “in their view, the task of border guards is not to protect the border, but to help illegal migrants to submit their asylum applications,”
the State Secretary pointed out.
Rétvári stressed that Brussels is currently in the process of “watering down” the migration regulation, i.e. looking for exceptions that would provide a basis for admission. He added that
they are hoping that the Central European countries will be the first to reach common ground on the need to reinforce the external border here.
In an interview with M1 news channel, the state secretary spoke about the amendment to the Act on Local Governments currently on the agenda. In connection with the parliamentary debate, he said that the secure functioning of local governments must be preserved. The budget of a municipality and the companies it owns cannot be adopted in such a way that they are already running deficits and losses. If that were to happen, the Government Office should appoint a bankruptcy commissioner to investigate the situation and the reasons for it, and then help to restore the budget to balance.
The bankruptcy commissioner’s task is to monitor the regulation later on, hence he can also work with the municipalities. Such an amendment will be discussed by the relevant committee on Thursday and could be voted on by parliament next week, the politician highlighted.
We support this, because only with a secure budget can public services such as public transport, social and other benefits be secure,”
Rétvári concluded.
Via MTI, Featured image via Wikipedia
