Hungary is new hot spot on migrant route into EU - Part 2

Mrs Cothill was brought here by her British family last year on a six-month visitor visa. But her health rapidly deteriorated so they decided to apply for her to stay permanently.

Immigration rules make it clear visas cannot be swapped while the person is in the country they are visiting. The Home Office said if she wanted to remain she should have applied while she was in her native Natal in South Africa.

They now want to put her on a plane and flown 8,000 miles so she can tick the boxes required for residency. But her health is so bad doubts remain whether she would survive the 12-hour flight.

Orbán: Europe must be protected from “left-wing conspiracy”
By Hungary Matters

Europe is being betrayed, and unless it is protected “it will be taken away from us”, the prime minister said. Addressing a conference of Christian intellectuals in Budapest, Orbán said Europe was in danger of being “taken over” and in the future may “fulfil the dreams of a few big-money-moving activist leaders whom nobody has voted for and who think beyond nation states … If you’re thinking of the Soros Foundation, that wouldn’t be unreasonable.”

Orbán said the reaction in Europe to the current migrant crisis was not “down to incompetence” but a conscious desire to implement a “leftist intellectual construction” in order to put nation states in Europe in parentheses. “This conspiracy, this betrayal is what we are faced with, and we must turn to democracy, to the people, to fight it,” Orbán said. A discussion must be started in Europe with the aim of coming out of it better off—as a strong and Christian Europe, he added. On the subject of Austria’s efforts to protect its border, the prime minister quoted the Austrian leader as saying that “we are not building a fence but a gate that has long wings.”

November 2nd, 2015
Opposition parties slam Orbán’s “conspiracy theory” speech
By Hungary Matters

Far-right Jobbik responded to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech to Christian intellectuals by saying that Orbán “has no credibility” in his assertion that he would turn to the people in connection with the migrant crisis. “If Orbán were indeed serious about protecting a Europe of nation states, he would make every effort to advocate a European referendum instead of a European debate on this issue,” the party said. “But Fidesz has disabled this direct democratic institution in Hungary,” Jobbik said.

The Együtt party said Orbán had not only put forward “a nonsense conspiracy theory” but even “told a lie” because the policy steps he has taken have not resolved the migrant crisis. “Orbán has not solved anything at all; rather, he has merely transferred the burden and responsibility of resolving the common problem onto others via his inhumane and coward policies.” Együtt added that the Hungarian government should abide by Brussels’ quota system and design a new migration policy to ease Hungary’s labour force problems caused by the approaching “demographic crisis”.