Thoughts which led to the 2015 immigration crisis have re-emerged in European liberal and left-wing politics, regardless of the profoundly negative experiences Europe has gained in the past five years, the Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said on the public service television news channel M1 on Wednesday.

György Bakondi stressed that interesting and significant events were taking place on the routes leading to Europe.

In European politics, debates on and clashes between political views related to illegal immigration have begun repeatedly, he added, stating that the most prominent sign of this process is that, according to the concept of the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), Europe should consider suspending the support provided for the Libyan Coast Guard and creating a humanitarian corridor. Masses of immigrants would arrive in Europe via the humanitarian corridor whom the Committee would immediately distribute among EU Member States, he added.

Regarding the present pressure of migration, the chief security advisor said Turkey is the key country on the Balkans route; the number of arrivals in Turkey significantly determines the number of those who will later arrive in Europe via this route. Due to the epidemic, Turkey has introduced very stringent border controls, and therefore, the number of migrants arriving from Turkey has decreased for the time being. At the same time, some 3.8 million people are waiting in Turkey; for most of them Europe is the destination.

On Wednesday morning on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’, Mr Bakondi stressed that in the past five years the LIBE Committee has been very actively trying to enforce the political concepts of the liberal, left-wing elite.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)