Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday rejected what he called German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “moral imperialism” in Europe’s migrant crisis, APA reports quoting AFP.
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Soldiers will be allowed to use rubber bullets, tear gas grenades, crowd-dissolving weapons and even arms that can harm the human body.
“We should repeat this as many times as necessary to have the amount of money that we need to handle the crisis”, he added.
In the interview, Mr. Weber also hit out at certain European Union member states that “simply aren’t doing what they’re supposed to” by failing to control and monitor their external borders, pointing out that these have to be protected much more effectively.
Hungary has built a razor-wire fence along the entire length of its border with Serbia, and last week hastily erected a barrier along the 41 kilometres of its border with Croatia which is not formed by the hard-to-cross Drava River.
Orban had tried to revise history by rehabilitating anti-Semitic politicians from Hungary’s past who shared responsibility for the deportations of Hungarian Jews, Heubner said. “Hungary will not allow illegal immigrants to cross its territory”.
European Union leaders are due to meet in Brussels at 1600 GMT for an emergency summit at which they could promise billions of euros in new funding for Syrian refugees. He added that migrants and people smugglers were responsible for the worsening of the current crisis.
Orban has argued that since other countries on the route including Turkey, Macedonia and Serbia are all stable, migrants should register there first and try to rebuild their lives.
The European Commission drafted a proposal which would distribute some 120,000 migrants throughout EU member countries according to their capacity and based on the countries’ population density, GDP and employment figures.
“Hungary is not responsible for the situation in Syria and it should not bear the brunt of the crisis – if anyone is responsible it is the West and the US”, Vona told Global Journalist.
“Poland is able to take in more refugees on a voluntary basis than those stipulated by the compulsory quotas proposed by the European Commission”, Foreign Minister Grzegorz Schetyna wrote in an opinion piece in the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, without specifying a number. Orban successfully argued it would have been an “invitation” to economic migrants. That seems an overstatement. Of course that treaty has benefited Hungary and eastern European nations disproportionately.
Given that, Orban’s hard-line is rubbing some the wrong way in Germany and other countries that have been more welcoming to migrants.
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“We should be strongly confronting Orban, we can’t fawn over him”, said Green party leader in the Bundestag (German parliament) Anton Hofreiter, himself a native of Bavaria.
