Kovacs calls for efforts to ease migration pressure outside Europe

The Hungarian government has had the same position on migration since 2015, and advocated that members of the European Union should cooperate and ease the pressure of illegal migration outside the community, Zoltan Kovacs, state secretary for international communications, told MTI on Wednesday. Kovacs reacted to a draft pact on migration and refugees presented by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen earlier in the day, and called for cooperation with countries generating migration aimed at ensuring conditions that "people are not forced to leave their homeland". "Aid should be delivered where it is needed rather than importing the problem to Europe."