Budapest, Hungary. The leaders of Hungary, Serbia and Slovakia have proposed building facilities to house asylum seekers outside the European Union, a solution they say would help contain unauthorized immigration that they say poses an existential threat to the bloc.
After a meeting in Komarno, Slovakia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico outlined a stricter migration policy that they would like to see the EU adopt, and which includes measures of more effective deportation and greater financing to member countries that are on the external borders of the bloc.
The long-awaited migration pact adopted by the EU in May “is not a solution, but the problem itself,” said Orbán, who has long been one of the toughest opponents of immigration in the 27-nation bloc. .
He proposed setting up EU-funded and operated “assembly points” in North Africa and elsewhere to house asylum seekers until their applications for international protection are approved.
“Those who want to come to Europe can meet and send their applications from there, and we will evaluate them. “Those who we allow entry will be able to come, and those who will not, will stay,” Orbán said. “They have to wait outside. All other solutions are ineffective.”
Each of the three leaders have been open critics of immigration, but Orbán has made it the central pillar of his right-wing populist government for nearly a decade. He sparked outrage in 2022 when he told a crowd of his party faithful that Hungary did not want to become a “mixed race” and has opined that “there are not enough traditional Christian and white Europeans in Europe.”
On Tuesday, Orbán ally Fico proposed that the EU erect physical barriers on its external borders, something Hungary did unilaterally in 2015, after hundreds of people, mainly fleeing war and instability in Syria and Iraq, They entered the EU in a matter of months.
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