Stating that the migration crisis could destabilise governments, countries and the entire European continent, he said frank talk is needed to solve the problem, “political correctness must be thrown away and a debate must begin without sanctimoniousness or hypocrisy”.

Orbán reiterated his view, recently expounded at the UN General Assembly in New York, that “what Europe is up against is not a refugee crisis” but an influx of economic migrants, refugees and foreign fighters in an uncontrolled and unregulated process.

While everyone is entitled to the right to human dignity and security, he continued, free choice of domicile is not a basic right. Those who leave their home and leave for Europe are victims, “but this cannot mean that we shall make ourselves victims as well,” he said.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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