“There are millions of people on the move in Africa, more and more people are setting out for Europe and there are already more than seven thousand migrants in Serbia”, the Prime Minster’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security highlighted on M1 Hungarian television’s Friday evening current affairs program.

György Bakondi added: “They are also trying to reach Europe via new routes, for example across the Turkish-Bulgarian border, and accordingly EU Member States are maintaining the measures they have introduced to combat mass migration”.

With regard to the recent meeting of EU Interior Ministers, the Chief Advisor said:  “The hope was that the facts, such as the reduction in Europe’s internal security, the increased threat of terrorism, the increasing number of crimes and acts of terrorism and the acts that have been successfully prevented, would highlight the fact that control over the Schengen Area must be re-established”. “Furthermore, it had also been hoped that the European Commission would remove the issue of mandatory quotas from its agenda, but this did not happen despite the fact that the number of countries who feel that the mandatory quota system is not a good idea has increased, for instance Austria, in addition to the countries of the Visegrád Group”, he added. “More and more people believe that mass relocation with no upper limit and simplified family reunification represent a danger to Europe’s security”, Mr. Bakondi noted.

(MTI)