Együtt: Hungary Should Take In 15,000 Refugees By 2016
- 8 Sep 2015 9:03 AM
The opposition Együtt party demands that Hungary should take in 10,000 refugees this year and 5,000 next year, on a voluntary and longterm basis. Viktor Szigetvári, the party’s leader, said that while Hungary is a homogeneous country, it needs new work force to make its pension and welfare systems sustainable. It is also Hungary’s moral duty to take in migrants.
At the moment all “well-intentioned Hungarians feel shame at last week’s actions by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the Fidesz government,” he said.
Hungary should make efforts to take in refugees above the quota it will be assigned.
Accommodation should not be “punishment camps” or “cold tents” but temporary facilities like the ones that can be seen in Austria, Szigetvári said.
He added that his party would put these proposals to parliament, too.
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