Hungary under attack, Orbán cabinet says
The “Baltic propaganda campaign” against Hungary has been “restarted”, as Baltic states accused the country of putting the security of the Schengen Area at risk by allowing Russian and Belorussian nationals to participate in its National Card programme, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Facebook on Tuesday. Furthermore, the Orbán cabinet says Manfred Weber also attacks the Hungarian government and Hungary due to their differences concerning the migration crisis.
Contrary to that “childish lie”, Russian and Belorussian nationals continue to need visas to enter the Schengen Area and can obtain residence permits only through lawful procedures, Péter Szijjártó said.
Meanwhile, issuing residence permits and similar procedures are national competencies, so “Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian authorities have similar rights,” he added. “It would be much better if my colleagues in Baltic countries informed their citizens correctly rather than launching new smear campaigns,” he said.
Weber launches ‘hypocritical attack’ on Hungary, government believes
A recent move by Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s Party, was “nothing but another hypocritical attack on Hungary by the pro-war liberal European elite,” Zoltán Kovács, the government’s international spokesman said on platform X on Tuesday.
“Yet again, it is Manfred Weber who is attacking the Hungarian government, all the while his government and its political allies have poured millions of illegal migrants into Europe, exposing the continent’s states and the people of Europe to a grave threat to national and public security,” Kovács said.
“This latest attack from Brussels is absurd and hypocritical because it is precisely the Brussels institutions and the
EPP, in alliance with the liberal forces, that are doing everything in their power to ensure that Hungary is forced to dismantle its strict border protection and asylum system, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants into the country and thus into the European Union,” he said.
“The Hungarian immigration regime is the strictest in the European Union. Guest workers are only allowed entry under a regulated framework, which includes a national security check, and they can stay for a limited period solely for employment purposes,” he said.
Hungary will continue to protect its southern borders and maintain the strictest immigration regime in Europe, Kovács added.
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