In 2015, almost the entire Western world declared Hungary to be the most heartless, merciless, unjust, and most hostile nation. Now that the catastrophic weight of mass migration already affects and presses them to an extraordinary extent, seeing the Afghan crisis, they are practically announcing the Hungarian crisis management program of 2015 in 2021, according to which mass migration must be prevented, into trouble those who have arrived must be helped locally. Of course, no one apologizes for the political drag of the past six years. They don't usually do that in politics - writes vasarnap.hu .
Mark Rutte , the prime minister of the Dutch caretaker government, told Rutte held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron
According to the Dutch news portal NlTimes, the Dutch prime minister discussed with the French president how to prevent another wave of refugees heading to Europe after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan.
"We absolutely want to avoid a repeat of the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis, which is why it is very important that order and normality return to Afghanistan in some form," Rutte declared.
Rutte also mentioned that it will not be easy for those fleeing to the countries bordering Afghanistan to get to the Netherlands either, as their asylum applications will be examined on an individual basis, and the Dutch government does not plan mass admissions.
Rutte and Macron also discussed the repatriation of people from Afghanistan. According to the Dutch Prime Minister, for this it is necessary that these people will be able to live safely in their country again.
Awkward tension, looking away, silence
An awkward tension surrounded the issue of Afghanistan at the French-Dutch meeting: while acting Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the new wave of refugees practically undesirable, the host President Emmanuel Macron tried to avoid the topic, since the highly influential French Green Party would accept all Afghans.
Nothing is more characteristic Mark Rutte , and also of the judgment of the Netherlands, than the fact that Rutte's meetings in France on Tuesday are not mentioned in a single word by Le Monde. The online version of the world newspaper last wrote Mark Rutte's name on July 27, and does not write about the event at all.
The French press treated the visit of the Dutch Acting Prime Minister with considerable restraint, not to mention the difference of opinion regarding the handling of the expected wave of Afghan immigration, reports hirado.hu .
While Rutte stated that he does not want to hear about another refugee crisis evoking the crisis of 2015, Macron, who must present the opinion of the relevant political factors of his country on foreign policy issues, takes a completely different position. Jannick Jadot, the presidential candidate of one of the strongest French parties, the extreme liberal-leftist green EELV, recently indicated that he thinks France should take in all, even tens of thousands, of Afghan refugees. Due to the structure of French domestic politics, the President of the Republic cannot completely refrain from this approach.
For this reason, as can be seen from the press coverage, the two politicians, but especially Macron, avoided the Afghan topic in their discussions like a cat avoids hot porridge.
of the article of the electronic edition of the conservative Le Figaro summarizing the Dutch-French talks, for example, does not mention Afghanistan in a single word, only the video linked to the article shows that Macron and Rutte - mentioned by both of them first - dealt with the issue of Afghanistan.
Of course, none of the politicians mentioned the obvious tension and the completely different Afghanistan policies of the two countries.
Opening photo: Acting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron at the La Rotonde bar in Paris. The black soup is behind (Photo: EPA/LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL MAXPPP OUT)
