Hungary’s ambassador in Macedonia: migrants could use new routes to Europe

Budapest, March 31 (MTI) – Migrants could use new routes to travel to Europe and the fight against human smugglers can only be successful if it affects the entire length of the migrants’ routes, Hungary’s ambassador to Macedonia said in an interview published in Thursday’s Magyar Idők.

József Bencze said the Albanian-Italian or the Greek-Bulgarian-Romanian-Hungarian routes are among the options.

Police and secret services in all countries along the routes need to join forces to fight against human smuggling. Legal regulations need to be tightened and coordinated, and equipment used by the smugglers as well as their profits from smuggling seized without delay, he said.

“Macedonians saw the construction of a border fence by Hungary as an example worth following because they could clearly understand that the invasion of ten thousand migrants a day could not be handled purely by human force,” he said.

Migration posed a serious financial burden on Macedonia over the past year, he said. Several neighbouring countries and members of the Visegrad Four including Hungary have provided support and a European Union decided to offer 9 million euros for financing the Macedonian police and foreign staff serving along the border, Bencze added.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters