Non-EU countries may be asked to host EU stations on their territory to screen migrants’ eligibility for refugee status, Hungary’s foreign minister said. According to expert László Földi, we are technically at war with traffickers.
Hungarian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Péter Szijjártó, said representatives of Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Turkey
would receive invitations to attend a conference on illegal migration to be held in Hungary in the autumn. Representatives
of European Union member states and institutions will attend alongside the seven non-EU countries, he said after holding
bilateral talks with his Luxembourg counterpart, Jean Asselborn. The plan could significantly reduce the migration burden
on Hungary, he said, noting that the latest data shows that just below 73,000 illegal migrants had come to Hungary this
year, the vast majority via Serbia. “It is a heightened interest of Hungary’s that Europe should find joint responses to illegal migration as quickly as possible,” he said.
Fidesz wants amendments just passed by parliament on tightening Hungary's asylum system to be signed into law as quickly as possible, the spokesman for the party's parliamentary group said. Bence Tuzson noted that the new legislation adopted on Monday allows fast-tracking the asylum procedure and ensures construction of a four-metre-high fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border.
The fence is only a temporary solution according to secret service expert László Földi. With human traffickers “we are at war, there's no way to put it gently,“ Földi told Magyar Hírlap. The expert thinks that mass migration is “well organized“ and weakens Europe by putting a burden on authorities.
Security service expert György Nógrádi talked about his personal experiences on the Serbian-Hungarian border to state television M1. He oversaw organized trafficking of people through the border and no intervention from the Serbian police. Nógrádi said Hungary must act to stop the masses. According to Nógrádi in one and a half hours time more then a thousand migrants crossed the border illegally, separated to groups of 100-120 people. Traffickers navigated them by using modern smartphones.
