Szijjarto: Building border fences 'only effective way' to stop migration

The only effective way to stop illegal migration is to build border fences, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, told a joint press conference held with his Latvian counterpart, Edgars Rinkevic, on Monday. He added that it was "absurd" that the European Union was still unwilling to finance the operation of Hungary's border protection efforts. Szijjarto said the pressure on Europe from the south, south-east and east was "unprecedented". Now Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are confronted with the same challenges Hungary has been dealing with since 2015, he added. Without fences, he said, no police or military force would be able to protect hundreds of kilometers of borders.