According to Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács the government has proved that borders can be protected, it is possible to create the necessary statutory framework to back up these efforts, and it is possible to avoid the type of law interpretation which leads to a system “that results in unforeseeable consequences and poses further challenges”.

Mr Kovács was interviewed on the public service television news channel M1 on Thursday about the UN’s global migration package. The government spokesperson said that “in a certain sense” the document does make a distinction between economic migrants and refugees. At the same time it conveys the threat that it may “soften” the distinctions that set apart those genuinely in need of protection and illegal and economic migrants.

He stressed those who think in terms of global governance and whose ideology “focuses on a seemingly philanthropic and humanitarian approach” would soon transpose these principles and statements into legal rules, and then into practice. This is why the government takes firm action against these ideas.

In his view Europe has been in a trap for two and a half years. It “deceives itself” by claiming that it is helping refugees, while it is quite evident that the vast majority of those coming to Europe are not entitled to legal protection. They are economic migrants who are not required even by countries which otherwise struggle with a shortage of work force.

(MTI)