Hungarian PM keeps tough stance against migrants

BRUSSELS, Sept 3 (KUNA) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban refused Thursday to change his tough stance towards the migrants in his country saying nobody can leave Hungary without being registered as it is an EU regulation.
"The problem is not a European problem. The problem is a German problem. Nobody would like to stay in Hungary, neither in Slovakia nor Poland nor Estonia. All of them would like to go to Germany", Orban said at a joint press conference with President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz in Brussels.
"Hungarians are full of fear. Europeans are full of fear. They see that European leaders are unable to control the situation" he said.
"The moral thing is to say please don't come. Why you have to come to Europe from Turkey. Stay in Turkey. Turkey is a safe country. Serbia is a safe country", the official added.
Meanwhile, Orban noted that the Hungarian parliament has passed a new package of regulations and the country has set up a physical barrier to prevent the migrants from coming.
The passport-free travel zone Schengen is under threat, warned the PM, adding that his country will set new regulations to face the current crisis.
The Hungarian authorities this morning opened the railway station in Budapest after closing it for two-days to prevent thousands of migrants, mainly from Syria, from leaving to Germany. However, the Keleti station in Budapest announced that trains to Western Europe had been suspended indefinitely.
Schulz on his part, openly criticized the anti-immigrant policies of Orban, saying that "what we are seeing is egoism instead of common European sense and solution. This is a real threat to the EU".
Schulz, a German politician, admitted that there are "major differences" in their views about the situation of the migrants in Hungary, urging Orban to find a European solution to the migrant crisis.
"Our debate behind closed doors was difficult. The EU member states have a population of 507 million. If we distribute 500,000 refugees among 507 million it is not a problem", said Schulz.
He said the refugees from Lebanon and Syria were leaving for Europe because Jordan and Lebanon do not have the financial means to help them.
European and some other countries had previously agreed to mobilize seven billion euros to help the refugees in Jordan and Lebanon during a donors conference, yet, not even three billion euro has been paid, the EP president noted.
Jordan has a population of four million and two million refugees in the country, he also said.
Orban is to meet with the President of the European Council Donald Tusk and the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker later today.(end) nk.ag