Budapest (MTI) – Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann fails to see that allowing hundreds of thousands or millions of people to enter Europe unchecked is “not an act of solidarity but an act of stupidity,” Hungary’s foreign minister told MTI on Sunday.

Peter Szijjarto responded to comments the Austrian chancellor made to Austrian public service television channel ORF and the daily Oesterreich about the Visegrad Four countries’ proposed solutions to Europe’s migrant crisis.

Faymann told Oesterreich that while the “coalition of the willing” seeks to find a solution to the crisis, the Visegrad Four countries have dismissed all of their proposals. The chancellor told ORF that in the future, migrants should be registered in external reception centres and people eligible for asylum should be distributed among EU member states. This, however, will only work if every member state adopts the same migrant registration procedures.

Szijjarto responded by saying that real solidarity means helping people fleeing conflict take refuge somewhere close to their homes in humane conditions, so that when the conflict ends they can return to their home countries. Stupidity, on the other hand, is admitting hundreds of thousands or millions of people into Europe when everyone can see that “neither the European people nor the migrants have got what they wanted”.

Szijjarto said that “as usual”, the Austrian chancellor is “lying about Hungary” and trying to bring even more migrants into Europe and distribute them by blackmailing EU member states.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters