According to the Prime Minister’s Chief Security Advisor, György Bakondi, the proposal put forward by the current Estonian Presidency of the Council of the European Union with relation to the mandatory quotas indicates that Hungary and the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4) are not alone in their standpoint.

During an interview on Hungarian M1 television’s Sunday evening current affairs program, the Chief Security Advisor was asked about the fact that according to the proposals put forward by the current Estonian EU presidency with relation to the reform of common refugee regulations, the Dublin system would continue to not include permanent and mandatory resettlement quotas in future.

Mr. Bakondi said the Government was hopeful with relation to the Estonian proposals, adding that although the European Parliament has already issued a resolution on mandatory distribution and no upper threshold on the inflow of immigrants, the Council of the European Union, which represents the governments of the community’s nation states, could achieve a compromise or other solution.

He was also asked with relation to Friday’s statement by the EU Council according to which an agreement has been reached on the fact that a budget of 3.7 billion euros will be set aside to enable the European Development Bank to increase its loans for migration-related projects outside the territory of the EU in future. According to Mr. Bakondi, it is difficult to imagine that this sum will be enough to solve the issue with relation to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya and other countries. But the idea that the problem must be solved where it arises instead of bringing it into Europe was also part of the ten-point plan put forward by the Hungarian Prime Minister, he pointed out.

(MTI)