“In the interests of assuring the continued safety of the population, Hungarian border protection will be receiving more personnel, as well as more legal instruments and technical equipment”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, György Bakondi said on Hungarian M1 television’s Monday evening current affairs program.

“While in previous years migration pressure generally diminished during the winter period, migrants are now continuously arriving despite the extreme cold, including across the ice of the frozen Lake Tisza. There is now also no reduction in the number of migrants attempting to reach Italy from Libya via the Mediterranean migration route, and migrants are also arriving from many other directions”, explained Mr. Bakondi, according to whom uncertainty factors are making it difficult to forecast future developments in migration.

According to Mr. Bakondi, governments that want to protect their people and borders, out of both national and EU obligations, must introduce the necessary measures and prepare themselves.

Speaking later on Kossuth Radio’s “180 Minutes” program, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister also highlighted the fact that thousands of people-a-day are attempting to reach Europe via sea, which is already a risky venture during the summer, and movement is also intense along the Balkan migration route and large masses of people have set out towards Hungary from Afghanistan and Pakistan.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)