“The police are prepared to handle the situation caused by mass migration along the Croatian-Hungarian border”, the Government Spokesperson said on Friday in Szeged.
The Government has extended the immigration-related state of emergency to a further four counties in accordance with Government Decree 270/2015 (IX.18) on the declaration of a state of emergency caused by mass migration in Baranya, Somogy, Zala and Vas Counties and the ordering, existence and termination of the state of emergency.
The construction of the temporary technical border fence on the Hungarian-Croatian border began late Thursday night; the fence will be built on a section of 41 kilometres, and the first line of defence will be completed during the course of today, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on the programme '180 minutes' of the radio station Kossuth Rádió.
The migration chain must be disrupted, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács stressed on the Thursday evening programme of the public service current affairs news channel M1.
In the initial seven months of the year, wages in real terms increased outstandingly, by 3.8 percent year-on-year, the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported earlier today. Thus, a positive wage growth trend has been in place for the 31st consecutive month. Compared to July 2014, the number of employees at enterprises with at least five employees was up by 46 thousand.
“The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and his Slovenian counterpart have voiced concerns with respect to the fact that the Croatian immigrant care system has collapsed within a single day and Croatia is sending immigrants on to Slovenia and Hungary instead of providing them with care and accommodation”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI on Friday morning.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó rejected criticism of Hungary on Thursday.
“The Dutch Foreign Minister has suggested this is “not the way” illegal immigrants should be received at the border, and accordingly the question arises: what would the Dutch police have done if aggressive immigrants threw stones and pieces of concrete at them at the border?”, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday.
In just one day, the Croatian immigration system has collapsed, and therefore a state of crisis due to mass migration will be declared in Baranya and Somogy Counties and the construction of the physical border fence will begin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said at his extraordinary press conference held in Budapest on Thursday evening.
The statement made in criticism of Hungary by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, which totally disregards the facts and the actual situation, is unacceptable, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó declared.