“More and more illegal immigrants are trying to get in via the Hungarian-Serbian and Hungarian-Romanian borders”, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday evening current affairs program.

Mr. Bakondi said two hundred people are being apprehended along the border each week along the Hungarian-Serbian border, compared to one hundred-a-week previously. Larger numbers of Afghans, Pakistanis and Iranians are being seen along both the Hungarian border and the Balkan migration route, he added.

According to the Chief Security Advisor, there are several reasons for the increase in migration. One is the good weather, but it is also true that negative processes have occurred in certain source countries, such as Libya, in addition to which the Turks are thought to have kept the migrants back with greater force during the EP elections, he stated.

“In the meantime, stricter migration regulations are on the agenda in both Hungary and Italy. However, activity may still be seen on the part of non-governmental organisations, who want to bring the migrants in regardless of the state measures”, Mr. Bakondi said.

He also highlighted the fact that the Hungarian administration is working on there being stricter EU regulations with relation to migration. A few days ago, the leaders of the Visegrád Group (V4) also held talks on making sure that the basic documents determining the main tasks for the upcoming new EU term include the protection of the external borders, the sovereignty of nation states and the protection of Christian culture to a more marked extent. “The V4 regards it as important that leaders are appointed to head the Commission, the Council, Parliament and other important positions, who do not see the main task of the apparatus as supporting people smuggling, which is fundamentally organised crime, but in guaranteeing the security of European citizens”, Mr. Bakondi declared.

(MTI)