Commenting on migration, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his weekly radio interview that over the past six years since 2015 border fences had been built not only by Hungary but also by Greece, Spain, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Poland.
This shows that Hungary’s position which it took “in solo” in 2015 is slowly becoming a majority view in Europe, he said. A total of 92,000 illegal border entries were prevented in the first nine months of this year, which shows that the pressure of migration increased three to four-fold over one year, Orbán said. Hungary has spent nearly 600 billion forints on border protection so far, which is approximately the same sum that the government will give to parents in the form of tax rebates next year, he said. As a result, it is a reasonable demand by Hungary that the EU should pay back at least a part of this money, he added.
Orbán warned that migration was making the pandemic spread faster, with illegal migrants transmitting infection. Hungary is ready to open a corridor for migrants to “march up to Austria, Germany and Sweden” but refuses to allow Brussels to force its opinion on Hungary, Orbán said. It is up to the Hungarian people to decide who should be allowed to enter the country and whom they want to live with, he added. “This debate will stay with us for years because we live in an age of epidemics and migration,” Orbán said.
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