Immigration Crisis: Hungarian Premier Arrives At EU Meeting With Six-Point Proposal
Hungary’s prime minister is planning
to submit six proposals on handling the migrant crisis at the European
Council extraordinary meeting in Brussels this evening. After attending a
meeting of the legislative committee of the conservative CSU in Bavaria
today, Viktor Orbán told journalists he would propose that Greece
should hand over the duties of protecting its borders to European
countries willing to participate in such a scheme.
Viktor Orbán will also propose
separating refugees and economic migrants before they enter the Schengen
area and for the EU to draw up a list of countries considered safe to
live in. Under the fourth proposal, every member state should increase
contribution to the EU by 1% and cut spending by 1%, resulting in 3
billion euros to be spent on refugees. He said he would also propose
developing a partnership with states whose involvement in handling the
migrant crisis is unavoidable, such as Turkey and Russia.
Finally, Viktor Orbán said global quotas
should be introduced and all countries in the world should be involved
in managing the migrant crisis. “Hungary is protecting Bavaria’s
borders,” Orbán said after meeting the Bavarian minister-president Horst Seehofer and EPP group leader Manfred Weber.
On Tuesday evening, he also exchanged views with former prime minister
of Bavaria Edmund Stoiber at a private dinner in Bamberg.
While the heads of states and
governments of the European Union are meeting in Brussels tonight, the
home affairs ministers have already agreed to relocate 120,000 refugees
from Greece, Italy and other member states. Only four countries,
Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania, said no to the
proposal. According to the decision, Hungary will need to have around
2000 refugees relocated from Greece and from Italy.
via hungarymatters.hu and MTI photo: Miklós Kobza – kormany.hu
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