24/09/2019 (Agence Europe) – On Monday 23 September, the Hungarian government criticised the provisional agreement reached on the same day in Malta by the Maltese, Italian, French and German Interior Ministers, accompanied by the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU (see EUROPE 12333/1). For spokesman Zoltan Kovacs, the agreement aims to reintroduce “a new updated version of the failed migrant quota system”. A system, according to him, which will amount to encouraging “new masses of people to embark” towards Europe. “It is a shame to see how Italy, the country whose government has shown the world that immigration by sea can be stopped, is falling into the lines of the promoter forces of the western part of the continent”, Viktor Orbán's government representative again reacted. The draft agreement will be submitted to the Interior Ministers on 8 October in Luxembourg. (SP)