Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visited the Bulgaria's border with Turkey and urged more EU help for the country.
Europe’s future will not be determined in Brussels but here, at the borders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Wednesday, after visiting the Bulgaria-Turkey border region with Bulgarian counterpart Boiko Borisov. Bulgaria successful border protection is the a shared interest “of us all”, he added, pointing out that Europe “cares little” for Bulgaria, but the community should help the country. “If we can give 3 billion euros to the Turks, who are not an EU member, it is impossible that we could not grant 160 million euros to EU peer Bulgaria,” he said “Bulgaria must not be left on its own,”, the Prime Minister said, emphasising that the Visegrad countries agreed to help Bulgaria. Orban warned against EU member states undermining each other’s border protection efforts.
Asked to comment on remarks made on Tuesday by Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg’s foreign minister, in which he said that the EU could not maintain its unity unless the community excluded Hungary, Orban played down the remarks as a political stunt. “Absurdity is the most entertaining thing in politics,” he said. “This is also about a communist from Luxembourg trying to lecture those on democracy who had suffered under communism for 40 years, Orban added.
