Hungary sturdily opposes migration with billions

European nation, Hungary, has insisted that it’s strongly against any policies, agreements and suchlike that support the Europe migration of Africans.

“Hungary is only prepared to support an EU agreement with the countries of Africa that concerns the funding of effective repatriation policies and facilitates the region’s population retention capacity,” Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó said in a statement to Hungarian news agency MTI.

Following a meeting of the council of foreign ministers of EU member states to discuss international development issues, Szijjártó said the meeting proves that the pro-immigration forces have again gathered momentum in several areas in Europe.

“During the renegotiation of the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and the African, Caribbean and Pacific Ocean states which the EU would like to extend beyond 2020, it can be clearly felt that the African party and several EU member states together with the European Commission want to supplement the treaty with elements that support and inspire migration and highlight its positive effects.

“According to Hungary, what we should be supporting is that the increasingly dynamically expanding African population is able to make a living at home and their only alternative is not to set out towards Europe.

“Hungary is not prepared to support the document if it includes any reference at all to the global compacts for migration or on refugees, the stealthy pushing through into international law of which is continuing to occur. Hungary will not allow this, and its closest ally in Europe in this regard is Poland.

“Hungary believes that assistance must be taken to where the trouble is, and accordingly has already provided over 7 billion forints (EUR20.9m) this year towards African job creation and the development of water and hygiene services.

“Hungary has increased its funding for Southeast Asia to over ten billion forints (EUR29.9m) and is running an 8-billion-forint (EUR23.9m) programme in the Middle East in the interests of enabling the realisation of development projects in the aforementioned regions that enable the locals to remain in place and make their localities attractive to them,” he declared.

He also highlighted that the migration situation is becoming increasingly serious in the Western Balkans, in view of the fact that the number of illegal border crossers in Turkey this year exceeded 400,000 by mid-November which is 128,000 more than during the whole of last year.

“The arrival of 27,000 illegal immigrants has also been registered in Serbia, and it’s double last year’s figure,” he added.