Hungary is the 13th safest country in the world, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of the Interior declared on Tuesday in Budapest. At the farewell party for the Hungarian police contingents leaving for Serbia and North Macedonia, Bence Rétvári added: there is no state in Europe where people feel safer than in Hungary, and there is no capital on the continent where security is greater than Budapest.
All this is also thanks to the police enforcing strict laws, he said.
The state secretary called the task of the members of the contingents one of the biggest challenges. The police have to serve in a foreign environment, far from their home country, and migrants who do not respect the continent's culture and legal system are constantly arriving in Europe, he said.
One contingent will serve on the Serbian-North Macedonian border, while the other will serve on the North Macedonian-Greek border, said Bence Rétvári. Both units consist of roughly thirty members.
Previously, the Hungarian police went to North Macedonia as part of a bilateral agreement. The activity expanded three months ago: Hungarian-Austrian-Serbian cooperation was concluded, as a result of which the Hungarian authorities are already sending contingents to Serbia, explained the state secretary.
He drew attention to it: the countries that have to directly protect their own borders take the task more seriously and demand more emphatically that Europe solves the problem with joint efforts.
Recently, a European border management conference was held for the second time. At the Athens event, along with Hungary, fifteen states, i.e. the majority of the members of the European Union (EU), expressed their will to step up border protection. However, the Germans and the French do not support this. Bence Rétvári stated that, despite the will of the fifteen states for legal minimum regulation and joint financing, the declaration did not hit the stimulus threshold of the decision-makers in Brussels. The European Commission merely took note of the document, but did not react to it.
The secretary of state said that 2,000 people have died in terrorist attacks on the continent in the past period. The youngest victim was 1, the oldest 90. The acts of terrorism, which took place mainly in Spain and France, were mainly caused by Islamic Jihad. 20 percent of the victims died as a result of a suicide attack, he listed, adding: migration increases the threat of terrorism.
He called the direction of modern-day migration clear. The Western Balkan route is still one of the busiest illegal migration channels, said Bence Rétvári.
He emphasized: whoever is stopped by the Hungarian police does not enter the territory of the EU. However, only 10 percent of those who are already here illegally can be successfully expelled from the continent.
The Secretary of State said that they are worried about the police officers on duty at the borders, but at the same time they are proud of them.
Source: MTI
