György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, has told Hungarian television channel M1 that there is no appropriate regulation – either at EU or nation-state level – on returning migrants to their countries of origin when their asylum requests have been refused.

Mr. Bakondi said that there are currently 500,000 migrants whose asylum requests have been refused, but, as the system of expulsion is still in a rudimentary phase, they will remain in the countries they are now in for an indefinite period of time. He added that the total of 26 Afghan men expelled to Afghanistan on Tuesday represents a low number in comparison.
Concerning the migration pressure from the South, he stressed that every regulation on border protection is worth as much as the given country or community’s ability to enforce it.

(MTI)