„A significant mass of people is trying to enter Europe and especially Germany, and the number of migrants arriving in Greece is steadily increasing”, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security said on Hungarian M1 television’s Sunday evening current affairs program.

While recent months have seen 1500-2000 asylum seekers arriving on the Greek mainland every day, current figures are up to 4000-5000 people-a-day, György Bakondi said, adding that the number of migrants arriving in Greece is rapidly approaching last year’s figure of 6000-8000-a-day.

He noted, however, that both Austria and the states along the Balkan migration route have implemented serious measures to harmonise border controls and to reduce and select the flow of migration.

According to Mr. Bakondi, the European Union has finally reached the stage where it accepts Hungary’s standpoint on the migration crisis: the protection of Schengen borders, the vetting of asylum seekers and the rejection of people who are not eligible for asylum status.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)