On Friday 5 July, Bence Rétvári, Deputy Minister of the Hungarian Ministry of the Interior, spoke in favour of protecting the EU’s external borders to a group of European journalists visiting Budapest, including Agence Europe.
“At the moment it is not the EU defining the rules. (...) It is not the EU leaders who are in control and make decisions, but the human traffickers”, he denounced.
Referring to a video of images from the Hungarian border showing violent men, sometimes armed,...