The Prime Minister’s chief advisor for internal security takes the view that Hungary’s international perception may significantly change after Austrian legal experts argued that the restrictions imposed by Austria on the reception of asylum-seekers cannot be deemed objectionable as the Treaty of the European Union lays down that the maintenance of public order and the preservation of internal security fall within the Member States’ own competence.
György Bakondi remarked on the programme of the public service news channel M1 on Wednesday morning: Hungary has shared this position right from the beginning. He said that the international aspects of illegal migration change highly dynamically, sometimes on an hourly basis.
The chief advisor for internal security also said: in his view, the documents written in Arabic among other languages regarding the options available for avoiding the Macedonian fence were not distributed by people smugglers in Idomeni situated at the Greek-Macedonian border because this would not be a source of income for them. In actual fact, other groups seek to direct the movement of migrants which intend to exert pressure on the decision-makers of the European Union to let those stuck in Greece move on, he added.