The Defence and Law Enforcement Committee of the Hungarian National Assembly held an extramural session at the Röszke border crossing point on Monday, 19 July. The meeting was also attended by Chief of Defence Gen. Dr. Tibor Benkő.
The European Union’s leaders’ judgement has been impaired, and they fail to see the fact that there is a close correlation between illegal immigration and terrorism, Bence Tuzson said at the conference Where is Europe heading? – Findings of the Project 28 research organised by the Századvég Foundation.
“The goal of the government information campaign for the quota referendum it to draw attention to the consequences of Brussels’ mistaken immigration policies”, the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister’s Minister of State for Government Communications told Hungarian news agency MTI.
Hungary will give every assistance with Serbia’s EU accession, and would find it unacceptable should any Member State or EU institution block this process, Péter Szijjártó said at the Brussels meeting of the Foreign Ministers of EU Member States upon talking to the Hungarian news agency MTI.
On the evening of Friday, 15 July, due to the events in Turkey, at the request of the Commander of EUFOR (COMEUFOR), the soldiers of a maneuver company serving in Sarajevo with the Hungarian Defence Forces EUFOR Contingent (EUFOR HUNCON) entered a standby period and postponed their scheduled return home on the following day. The decision was approved by Hungarian Chief of Defence Gen. Dr. Tibor Benkő.
“Of the cross-border Hungarian communities, the Hungarians of Transcarpathia are struggling the most tenaciously for survival and the Hungarian Government is supporting this struggle via economic means”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Economic Diplomacy Levente Magyar declared on Saturday in Tiszapéterfalva during his opening speech at the 3rd Turul Expo.
“There was a mass brawl at the Guarded Refugee Receiving Centre in Kiskunhalas”, the Prime Minister’s Chief Advisor on Homeland Security told Hungarian news agency MTI in Monday morning.
“Europe has proven to be defenceless in several respects, and accordingly the most important task is that Europe must be protected”, Péter Szijjártó said during a meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Brussels.
The Minister heading the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister takes the view that Europe must face up to the fact that the more immigrants come to Europe, the greater the threat of terrorism will be.
On behalf of the Government, the head of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister asked Hungarian citizens staying or travelling abroad to heed the warnings of the authorities regarding the threat of terrorism in every instance. Antal Rogán stressed that Europe’s exposure to the threat of terrorism has increased with migration.