In the case of the EU migration and asylum package, the most important question is whether those who want to come to Europe can stay in the territory of the union until their asylum application is assessed or whether they have to wait outside the borders of the union until the decision is made. As long as this question is not answered, no EU provision related to migration will work, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated in Brussels on Tuesday.

Orbán held a public conversation with former Polish Prime Minister Viktor Mateusz Morawiecki and Fabrice Leggeri, former head of the EU's border protection agency, Frontex, leader of the list of the French right-wing National Compact (RN) party in the European Parliament.

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In the photo published by the Prime Minister's Press Office, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (b2) at a panel discussion on migration and border protection in the European Parliament building in Brussels on April 16, 2024.
Next to Viktor Orbán, from the left, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, from the right, Fabrice Leggeri, the former head of the EU's border protection agency, Frontex, the list leader of the French right-wing National Consolidation (RN) party (j2) and Andrzej Sados, the former head of Poland's permanent representation to the European Union (j). MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer

The Prime Minister stated:

no matter what ideas emerge regarding the EU migration and asylum package, the question of staying in the EU during the asylum procedure must be answered. This is the red line. If this point is not met, everything else remains unresolved

- He told.

"If we are not brave enough to say: everyone must stay outside the borders until a decision is made in their case, no matter what other decision we make, it will not work," underlined the Prime Minister.

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Front page photo: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (s) at a panel discussion on migration and border protection in the European Parliament building in Brussels on April 16, 2024, in a photo published by the Prime Minister's Press Office.
From the left, former Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer