Bakondi: Complying with EU ruling would spell end of Hungary border protection

“What good would border protection be if migrants were to be transported to camps? Hungary would also need to assess 25 percent of the applications submitted in the EU, which would lead to the formation of migrant ghettos,” Gyorgy Bakondi said.

“The government is unwilling to do so, in line with the will of its citizens,” Bakondi said.

It will also sue the European Commission to receive compensation for the 800 billion forints (EUR 2bn) on border protection, he added.

Noting that the CJEU fined Hungary to 80 billion forints and an additional 400 million for every subsequent day of non-compliance with its migration policy, Bakondi said the fine was seven times the amount originally sought by the EC.

The Hungarian and Serbian authorities had cooperated to push migrants — who were often violent and toting guns — from the Hungary-Serbia border, and they had now moved towards the Bosnia-Croatia border, he said.

Bakondi said the fact that some migrants were carrying knives or guns showed that illegal migration posed a threat to the county’s security.

European countries were currently looking for alternative solutions, with Italy transferring migrants to Albania, Bakondi said. The United Kingdom had planned to airlift them to Ruanda but the new government had scrapped the idea, “and the flood of migrants instantly restarted across the Channel”, he noted.