Hungary’s PM Orbán Proposes Migrant Crisis Solutions
- 24 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
Hungary’s prime minister is planning to submit six proposals on handling the migrant crisis at the European Council extraordinary meeting in Brussels this evening. After attending a meeting of the legislative committee of the conservative CSU in Bavaria today, Viktor Orbán told journalists he would propose that Greece should hand over the duties of protecting its borders to European countries willing to participate in such a scheme.
Orbán will also propose separating refugees and economic migrants before they enter the Schengen area and for the EU to draw up a list of countries considered safe to live in.
Under the fourth proposal, every member state should increase contribution to the EU by 1% and cut spending by 1%, resulting in 3 billion euros to be spent on refugees.
He will also propose developing a partnership with states whose involvement in handling the migrant crisis is unavoidable, such as Turkey and Russia. Finally, Orbán said global quotas should be introduced and all countries in the world should be involved in managing the migrant crisis.
“Hungary is protecting Bavaria’s borders,” Orbán said after meeting the Bavarian minister-president Horst Seehofer.
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