Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary attended a board meeting for his ruling party Fidesz’s Members of European Parliament on Tuesday, 3 December in Brussels, Belgium. After the meeting, he uploaded a video to his Facebook page informing the voters on what was discussed.
‘We have listened to Brussels’s lie campaign against Hungary about migration. They claim that they are not mandating Hungary to take in illegal migrants. That is a blatant lie. We are saying no to the Migration Pact because it does mandate letting in migrants and creating migrant ghettos, thus dismantling our complete border protection system.
We have spent €2 billion on border protection so far. We would deserve accolades, not punishment. Migration is an issue where it is enough to make one mistake. Where the weak leaders of weak governments have let in migrants once, they could never be removed from there…We are the opposition to pro-migrant Brussels!’
The Hungarian government has made the case for reimbursements for protecting the EU’s external borders before, for instance, through statements by Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás at a press briefing in September of this year. This is an especially topical issue now, as speculations suggest that Hungary may lose access to €1 billion of frozen EU cohesion funds for good by the end of the year.
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