MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Hungarian Ma.hu news portal, the proposed measures are intended to prevent people crossing into Hungary illegally from countries such as Serbia and Greece. The government is also considering installing barbed wire at the border.
Kosa said that the measures envisaged by his party are "legal means to close the border" and not “the construction of an Iron Curtain."
He noted that all of Hungary’s neighboring countries except for Ukraine are considered safe states.
Hungary is among the European Union member states that oppose a quota system on migrant distribution, proposed in late May by the European Commission, to deal with the increased inflow of asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants fleeing conflict in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
According to the details of the quota proposal, the number of migrants each European member country would have to accept will depend on its GDP, unemployment rate and the number of registered migrants it already houses. The EU is to pay 6,000 euros (some $6,700) per each migrant a country takes in.
