On M1 television channel’s Wednesday morning show, Parliamentary Minister of State at the Ministry of Interior Károly Kontrát said that Hungary has shown an example by protecting its southern border, and more and more countries have started to follow the Hungarian model.
The problem of mass migration to Europe can only be successfully resolved through international cooperation, the Interior Minister said when he addressed the fifty police personnel whom Hungary is sending to Slovenia to contribute to the efforts aimed at the protection of the EU’s external borders.
When receiving Polish border guards who had arrived to protect the Serbian-Hungarian border section, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said that without the protection of external Schengen borders, European law, justice and freedom are at stake in internal regions.
In Szeged on 5 November 2015, Hungary's Minister of Justice László Trócsányi said that the ongoing migrant crisis has found Europe unprepared.
The Visegrád countries have set an example of cooperation in the management of illegal immigration, the Interior Minister said at the Rapid Response Police Unit.
The Hungarian State “cannot ever let a single one of its citizens down again”; it is the duty of the State to protect every one of its citizens from murderous intent, external enemy and internal treason, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér said in Budapest before the Medals of Honour for Bravery and the Righteous Among the Nations medals were handed over in recognition of assistance rendered at the time of the Holocaust.
The Government of Hungary will resort to all available remedial options under law to prevent the enforcement of a mandatory EU quota system in response to migration, the Minister of State of the Ministry of Interior stressed at his press conference held in Eger on Wednesday.
Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor Pintér and Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic reopened the Röszke-Horgos road border crossing station on Thursday.
A new border police training base was officially opened in Szeged on Thursday. “Let the presentation of the ceremonial keys to the base be a symbol of the fact that the authorities will apply all possible means to protect Hungary, the Hungarian people and our southern borders”, the Ministry of Interior’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at the event.
It is an objective and an expectation on the part of the leaders of the European Union that there should be the same degree of security throughout the territory of the EU, and this will only be the case if the police respond to the challenges which threaten security in the same manner and have the skills and expertise which are necessary for the resolution of the task, Sándor Pintér said.