The decline in the volume of migration had already occurred before the EU-Turkey deal entered into force, and this is the result of national solutions according to the PM's advisor.
György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, attended an international scientific conference in Pécs entitled “From border police to police sciences”, at which he said in his presentation that national solutions have been realised along the Balkan migration route in coordination with Austria, kormany.hu reports. Referring to the most recent report by the EU border agency Frontex, he said that thanks to these national solutions “the decline in the volume of migration had already occurred before the EU-Turkey deal entered into force”.
The EU must be able to protect its own borders, Mr. Bakondi said; referring to Turkey, he added that the EU should not rely on the help and goodwill of only one non-EU country of 80 million people.
