“A European-level change of approach is necessary: the security of the population must be given a greater role in European Union migration policy”, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday evening current affairs program.

György Bakondi was asked with relation to the fact that on Thursday afternoon in Barcelona an assumed jihadist drove his van into pedestrians, hitting people over a distance of some six hundred metres. A similar attack also occurred in the seaside resort of Cambrils on Thursday night, killing eleven people and injuring one hundred and thirty.

The Chief Security Advisor said a tendency could be observed, with some five hundred people losing their lives and several thousand suffering injuries as a result of terrorist attacks “since the beginning of the migration crisis”, and that this is “one of the results of uncontrolled, mass illegal migration” that Western European countries “assessed poorly”.

“It is time for the European Union to think this over and place greater significance on the security of the population in its migration policy”, he stressed, adding: “This is something on which the Hungarian Government is placing major emphasis”.

“The strict monitoring of state borders is required”, he highlighted. “Counter-terrorism, national security agencies and their international cooperation is becoming more important than ever before”, Mr. Bakondi said.

(MTI)