The migration task force is reviewing the international aspects of issues concerning migration, focusing primarily on how the Schengen requirements can be better met, the Prime Minister’s chief advisor for internal security said on the Friday evening programme of the public service television news channel M1.
According to György Bakondi’s information, the international migration task force will look into the Schengen Agreement, the Dublin Regulations, the mandatory settlement quotas, the fact that Hungary and Slovakia contested the latter before the court, and „a complex approach to the issues of the referendum”.
The chief advisor for internal security reiterated that some two million people arrived in the territory of the EU last year, primarily in Germany and Sweden. However, with the closure of the Balkans route and the EU-Turkey agreement, the number of migrants arriving in the EU, including the number of asylum-seekers, has decreased considerably.
At the same time, he added, the number of migrants arriving via roundabout routes or new routes is increasing on the Hungarian-Serbian border as well, or is „at least, in daily and weekly magnitudes, in excess of former levels”, and the migrants who come here submit asylum requests even if they know that they do not satisfy the criteria.
János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference held on Thursday: a migrant affairs task force headed by Justice Minister László Trócsányi has been set up within the Government with the participation of the Interior Ministry and the Prime Minister’s Office, in addition to the Justice Ministry.