Government official: ‘Brussels mayor’s call to stop migrant buses double standard’

Last week, Bence Retvari said that if the European Union forced Hungary to accept illegal migrants, Hungary would offer them transport to Brussels once the procedure had been completed.

On Tuesday, Retvari commented on Philippe Close’s post on X, where the mayor said, in Flemish, that “the Hungarian government is not above provocation. I call on Alexander De Croo … to stop these busses at the border. How long are we going to suffer provocation from a country we are supporting?”

Above a link of the Hungarian website mandiner.hu reporting on the issue, Retvari called on Close to “stand up for the legitimacy of Hungarian border protection, and then Brussels citizens will also be safer”.

The article also cited Balazs Orban, the prime minister’s political director, as saying that “it is the Brussels elite, rather than Hungary’s government, which invited millions of refugees to Europe by promoting a pro-migration, open-borders stance.”

“Europe needs responsible leadership and stricter border control and immigration policy, for which the Hungarian model is a good example,” Orban said.