“Maintaining border security is in our fundamental national interest”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Saturday evening current affairs program.

György Bakondi explained: “No matter what concept the European Union wants to use to realise the admittance of immigrants, either for demographic reasons or because of labour issues, Hungary will not interfere, but we ask that they respect the fact that Hungary does not want to become an immigrant country”. “The Government is doing everything in its power to assure the safety of the Hungarian people”, he added.

The Chief Security Advisor said that this week one of the European Commission’s spokespersons called the realisation of the quota decision a success, and a new plan was also announced for the acceptance of 50 thousand people in a legal manner, primarily through family reunification.

Mr. Bakondi also reacted to a lecture by the European Commission’s First Vice-President Frans Timmermans held at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, in Latvia. “In his speech in the University’s ‘Soros Hall’, Frans Timmermans ‘somewhat symbolically’ recalled the ideas that also provide the essence of the Soros Plan. He voiced concrete criticism of Hungary and Poland, and declared that there is no need for a fence”, the Chief Security Advisor said, adding that it was to a certain degree contradictory that Timmermans himself admitted: there exists a NATO study according to which Europe can count on the arrival of 60 million illegal immigrants by 2020 from the African region alone.

(MTI)