Hungary Acted in Time as Europe Faces Daily Threats of Terrorism

Not a day goes by in Europe without a terrorist act being committed, attempted or prevented by the secret services, Prime Minister Orban's chief domestic security advisor told public Kossuth Radio's Sunday news program. Gyorgy Bakondi believes that those in charge of paving the way for new ideas on migration are completely unperturbed by these circumstances.

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Mr Bakondi pointed out that in Europe today, not a day goes by without an act of terrorism or an attempted act of terrorism.

This is dangerous, because if the draft migration pact remained in its current form, then someone firing a machine gun at border patrol officers tonight could register as a political refugee tomorrow, and he should be allowed entry and held in some migrant camp until his asylum application is processed.

– This solution has proven to be a spectacular failure in Western Europe, because those who should have been deported, around eighty percent, are still inside the country, he noted.

It's extremely difficult to believe that there are political forces viewing what's happened in Europe since 2015 - in terms of illegal migration - as a positive development, or thinking that this is the right solution for the European people, he said.

Regarding the fact that Hungary's southern border fence has faced repeated political attacks, whereas Finland has recently decided to shut down all its border crossing points before migrants coming from Russia, Mr Bakondi pointed out that in 2015, when the Hungarian government decided to build a technical border barrier system, they examined solutions already employed in Europe.

– They saw that on the border between Greece and Turkey, Bulgaria and Turkey, and along the border between Morocco and Spain, the English and the French have built a fence at the entrance to the tunnel. This was the only effective way to keep the masses away, to hold them back," Mr Bakondi explained.

Since then, many countries have followed suit, but Hungary is the only one that has come under permanent political attacks,

– he noted. 
Mr Bakondi expressed confidence that, faced with frequent terrorist attacks and the ensuing public security crisis with grave repercussions, EU citizens have reached the threshold of their political tolerance. This could trigger a turnaround at the upcoming EU elections, altering the composition of the European Parliament and immediately impacting the EU's migration policy, he said.

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