Immigration Crisis: Budapest Sends Clear Messages Both to East and West

HUNGARY TODAY: Hungary’s Parliament has not only green-lighted further measures enabling protection of the county’s borders but also passed a government resolution calling on EU leaders to protect the continent and its citizens against the consequences of the migration crisis. “The waves of illegal migration threaten an explosion in the whole of Europe,” said the resolution in which the Hungarian government blames the EU for allowing the situation to escalate. “People are now dying in the wake of Brussels’ irresponsible policies,” the document said.

“All European politicians are irresponsible if they encourage migrants to leave all they have behind and risk their lives to get to Europe in the hope of better conditions,” the resoultion said. The countries of central Europe, which have just recovered from an economic crisis, “cannot afford to suffer the damage wrought by Brussels’ ill-advised policies”, according to the document. Hungary cannot allow illegal migrants to jeopardise employment and Hungarians’ social security, it added. “We have the right to protect our culture, language and values,” it said, adding that the government is committed to further developing the economy “without the unbearable burden of illegal migrants arriving in Hungary”. » | via hungarymatters.hu and MTI | Tuesday, September 22, 2015