Orbán: Hungary Not To Be Destination For Economic Immigrants

  • 31 Jan 2015 7:00 AM
Orbán: Hungary Not To Be Destination For Economic Immigrants
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán again pressed for a cross-European immigration policy and told public Kossuth Rádió that “we do not want to become a target country for economic immigrants”. There are masses of people arriving in Hungary who are obviously not persecuted at home but are in search of a better living; they claim to be subjects of political exile in order to get favourable assessment by the immigration authorities.

Many of them leave Hungary later, Orbán said. However, since the terrorist attacks in Paris, countries preferred by economic immigrants will introduce stricter regulations and migrants will be stuck in Hungary, but “I do not want this and I think the majority of Hungarians do not want that either,” he said.

Orbán reiterated that he did not see a sensible argument for allowing masses of people from different cultures and civilisations in Hungary if the only reason for them to move to Hungary is to enjoy better living standards.

In the case of “migration for work reasons” within the European Union, however, it is not correct to apply immigration categories because “we are European citizens and the whole of Europe is ours,” he said.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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