National Security Cttee holds meeting on illegal migration (adds LMP)

Parliament's National Security Committee held a closed-door meeting on Wednesday to discuss the situation arising from migration pressure on the Greek-Turkish border. The (Fidesz) deputy head of the committee, Janos Halasz, said illegal migration dominated national security issues. The Fidesz group called for future committee meetings to focus on illegal migration, he said. He insisted that 100,000 migrants were ready to travel from Turkey to the European Union, while there were "hundreds of thousands" of migrants in the Western Balkans. Many, he added, were "attacking the Hungarian border".