Orbán told public Kossuth Radio that the five instances currently listed in the country’s fundamental law that mandate the use of the armed forces and allow the enforcement of special measures are insufficient for managing terrorist threats.

He said that Europe is likely to face further terrorist threats in the future, which is why more and more European countries need to provide their governments with the proper means to manage these threats.

Hungary, as of today, is not among the countries most threatened by terrorism, which Orbán attributed to the government’s tough stance on illegal migration last autumn.

“Hungary was successful in defending itself, but that does not mean that it could not face such [terrorist] threats in the future.”

Orbán said, however, that the government must be cautious with the amendments and must keep civil rights restrictions to a minimum, adding that “the safety of the people must come first”.

He said the leftist opposition does not view the threat of terrorism as real danger, the same way that it did not consider migration to be a real problem.

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