Szijjarto slams 'Brussels' over migration policy

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto, speaking at a meeting of the Visegrad countries and eight Nordic-Baltic states in Lithuania on Monday, said: "Brussels favours migration and the European Commission has started communicating the positive effects of legal migration." "This takes us back to last year's dispute [in the UN] over the global migration compact, which was exclusively about how to legalise illegal migration," Szijjarto told a press conference. The European Commission "keeps trying to pull the wool over the eyes of governments" and wants to make the public believe that "there is no migration crisis and that migration is good", he added. Szijjarto said there was general agreement at the V4-Baltics meeting that migration had carved out the deepest dividing lines in the history of the European Union so far. The European Parliament election will resolve the question of what direction the EU will head in, he added. Hungary is concerned that infrastructure along Europe's southern borders has not been developed "since the start of a tranquil period facilitated by the agreement between the EU and Turkey", Szijjarto said