Szijjarto: EC 'pressure' increases migration risk

Risks around migration are further aggravated by "strong pressure" by the European Commission "to promote the migration process", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Luxembourg on Monday. Speaking to Hungarian journalists after meeting his European Union counterparts, Szijjarto said "an uncertain situation in Afghanistan and developments in Libya pose a serious risk to Europe in terms of migration pressure on the continent". European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, who is in charge of the community's migration policy, "aims to legalise migration rather than stopping it," Szijjarto said, adding that the commissioner's measures "are exclusively aimed at bringing more and more migrants to Europe". As regards the United Nations' global migration compact, Szijjarto said the EU's sole aim was to use the document as a pretext to legalise illegal migration. The European Commission's messaging regarding the document, he said, was that more and more migrants should be brought to Europe.