Only a very small percent of the recently arrived migrants could integrate to the European job market, says the expert.
A different view of immigration policy constitutes no legal ground for taking away the EU funds from a member state, Hungarian Secretary of State for Justice told public television M1. Pál Völner reacted to the threats of European leaders, including Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann. The Secretary of State emphasized that these funds serve the cohesion of the European Union, taking them away would violate the accession agreement of the countries. Völner said that accepting the mandatory quota would mean a harmful precedent in the Union as it was decided by the Justice and Home Affairs Council and not the European Council.
Meanwhile senior lecturer at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), László György explained to the public radio MR1 that the information regarding the qualifications of the migrants are misleading. Reliable statistics by the Austrian Public Employment Service (AMS) showed last September that among the 17.000 refugees staying there only 7% of the Syrians and 1% of the Afghans had higher education but most of them couldn't prove it with documents. According to German data, because of the lack of documents proving qualifications and knowledge of German language only about 10% of the migrants could integrate into the job market. Statistics by the OECD show that 22-23% of those who have just arrived in Europe could start to work and it would take a decade to employ 80% of the migrants.
