“One positive result of Friday’s EU summit is that the European Union will also be helping to protect the Bulgarian border with funding, because much will be decided on the Bulgarian border in the coming weeks and months”, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security György Bakondi said on M1 Hungarian television’s Saturday evening current affairs programme.

“There are more than 65 thousand registered migrants in Greece, more than ever before, who are looking for new routes along which to travel further into Europe. One of these leads to the Bulgarian border and the other via Albania, Kosovo and Serbia to Hungary or the triple border and Romania”, he added.

Mr. Bakondi also mentioned that most of the Member State Prime Ministers present at the EU summit in Bratislava on Friday agreed with the idea of setting up a join European army. “Although this is still just an idea, it is important because the European Union had found itself in a new internal security situation with the exit of the United Kingdom and the arrival of masses of migrants via Ukraine in the east and via Italy and Greece in the south represents a major challenge”, he explained.

According to Mr. Bakondi, the viable and realistic reconditions for solutions to the refugee crisis put forward by the Visegrád Group (V4) are attractive to Austria and possibly other countries too.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)