We have the technical conditions and the necessary live force to protect the country’s borders even if there should be a change in the routes of illegal migration, the Government Spokesperson stressed on the Thursday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.

Zoltán Kovács mentioned among the potential threats that, in the event of the introduction of a permanent settling quota, we could shortly find migrants in Hungary, together with their family members in consequence of family reunifications, in the numbers of the population of Szeged, while another threat is that there are already more than forty thousand people on the list of those planned to be expelled „in which foreign authorities informed Hungary that these people would be sent back to Hungary”.

The Government Spokesperson stressed: the Government already made clear earlier that Hungary is not willing to take back in those who did not first enter the Schengen zone here.

He added: there is not a single EU document stipulating that the Member States must accept mandatory settling quotas, and that “tens and hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people will be coming here, without permission, without documents and without any kind of regulation”.

“We believe that Europe is, in this sense, full already at this point in time, and we must very quickly put an end to what is happening on the borders which as yet stand unprotected, and we must also reconsider the EU’s entire migration and refugee strategy”, Mr Kovács said.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)