“An increase in migration pressure can be expected in July and August, primarily along maritime migration routes; large numbers of people will be setting out for Europe during the summer”, the Prime Minister’s Chief Security Advisor said on Hungarian M1 television’s Tuesday morning current affairs program.

“What we have been seeing since 2015 is that most people attempt to reach Europe via maritime migration routes between spring and autumn, in view of the fact that the stormy and windy weather and the cold water discourage migrants from setting out on the trip at other times of the year”, György Bakondi said.

According to the Chief Security Advisor, “two perspectives are at odds on the issue in Europe”, one of which states that people who want to immigrate to the EU should be checked at the border of the European Union, or if possible at so-called hotspots established outside the EU, and only those should be allowed entry who are in fact entitled to asylum. According to the other standpoint, “everyone should be allowed in”, their requests for asylum should be assessed here, and people who do not conform to the conditions must be sent back to where they came from, or to where they first entered EU territory. The Hungarian Government will not accept the latter option “under any circumstances and despite any and all pressure”, the Chief Security Advisor said.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)