Brussels vs. Budapest: The migration report that misses the mark

According to the chief advisor to the Prime Minister for internal security, György Bakondi, this classification is absurd. Speaking on state news channel M1, he explained that, in connection with the migration pact rejected categorically by Hungary, the Commission plans to issue quarterly reports identifying which member states face migration threats or pressures. Hungary was categorized in the first report as facing no threat. “This clearly ignores reality,” the advisor emphasized, recalling 1.4 million refugees from Ukraine who sought refuge in the EU through Hungary, and more than 1 million illegal border crossings that Hungary successfully prevented at its southern border.

Member states in the third category must accept illegal migrants from other, pressured countries, allocated via quotas in Brussels. Countries unwilling to host illegal border crossers can pay a fee of 20,000 euros per person. Hungary had previously been asked to establish reception centers for 30,000 illegal migrants in line with the migration pact. Bakondi recalled the poor experiences of the Hungarian population in autumn 2015, when thousands of migrants, encouraged by pseudo-NGOs and Western governments, primarily in Berlin and Vienna, bypassed the Dublin rules to join so-called “welcome seekers.”

“From the beginning, Hungary’s government declared that we would not implement the migration pact because it stands in direct opposition to the interests of Hungarian citizens,” the security expert noted. Hungary will neither accept nor feed illegal immigrants allocated from the EU headquarters. Bakondi gave a concrete example of the absurd demands the EU Commission places on member states: “If someone has no right to asylum, we must return them at our own expense to where they came from. But we do not know where they came from, nor who these people really are.” It is alarming that the position of Brussels and many EU states has not changed since the outbreak of the migration crisis in 2015, even though an increasing number of voters demand a reversal from the migration dead end. Still, the narrative persists that these are “skilled workers,” whose arrival is essential to maintaining pension systems.

“With the current classification, Brussels once again shows that it wants to increase political pressure on Hungary. They want to force their migration pact and the consequences of their failed migration policies on us at all costs,” summarized the Prime Minister’s chief advisor.

Artificial intelligence was used to assist in the translation of parts of the original German text.