“According to the position of the Hungarian Government, accelerating immigration at either European Union or UN Compact level is damaging and at odds with the interests and will of the European people”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Wednesday evening current affairs program.

György Bakondi was asked with relation to the fact that an absolute majority was not achieved at Wednesday’s European Parliament (EP) vote on the introduction of Humanitarian visas, but the rapporteur would like a new vote to be held citing a technical error.

The Chief Security Advisor said that as the EP elections approach, in the EU they are attempting increasingly desperately to create the legal conditions to enable the continuation and simplification of the inflow of migrants, and that in his opinion this is what the use of anonymous bank cards, the issue of border protection and the aforementioned vote are all about.

People arriving in Europe would receive a humanitarian visa, which “for the sake of clarity” he called a migrant visa, which would allow them to enter Europe and have their asylum requests adjudicated there, Mr. Bakondi added. This would to all intents and purposes circumvent the border protection of nation states, because migrants with such a visa could enter countries legally at any border crossing point, he explained.

“The new EP and Commission should decide on issues of this scale and importance”, he said.

In reply to a question, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister also said that there are 35 thousand so-called migrant cards according to the UN’s refugee organisation. We haven’t seen any along the Hungarian border as yet, “but we know all about them”, he added. “These are financed from several sources: from financial contributions provided by the EU, the UN and George Soros”, he stated. According to Mr. Bakondi, the aim of the cards is to support the illegal migrants who are flowing into Europe.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)