This Thursday, Hungary and the Czech Republic have disfigured the 200 million aid granted by the European Commission to Spain in the context of the massive entry of migrants into Ceuta at the end of July, considering that Pedro Sánchez’s Executive has not done its “job” in terms of border protection.
Hungary attacks European aid to Spain
“It is not fair that Hungary pays one million euros a day to defend Europe’s common borders,” said Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar. “This is very bad. This is not good news. At all”the Hungarian leader has insisted after alluding to the million-dollar sentence imposed at the end of 2025 by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) against the country, then led by Viktor Orbán, for its refusal to comply with community asylum rules.
Magyar wanted to emphasize that what the four countries of the Visegrad Group have defended on migration matters has “now become the majority position” within the European Union. “There are not ten, but between 19 and 20 Member States that say the same thing. That we have to step forward and support the protection of borders.”
Babis defends the Visegrad Group as the “safest area in Europe”
For his part, the Czech leader Andrej Babis has defended that the four countries represent the “safest area in Europe”, claiming that they are the ones who “decide” who resides in their territory. “Here, in the Visegrad Group, each Member State decides who will live here and who will work here,” he pointed out.
The Czech leader recalled that ten years ago they already proposed to the rest of the EU members what they had to do to “solve the problem of illegal immigration.” “In 2016 we told the other Member States what they should do, but they did not listen to us. They have realized after ten years, but for some it is already too late,” he assured, before disgracing them that “they still do not listen.”
The Commission unlocks emergency funds for Ceuta
The European Commission announced this Wednesday that it will release 114.7 million euros in emergency funds to help manage the situation in Ceuta, where several thousand of the immigrants who entered irregularly from Morocco remain at the end of last July, in particular to reinforce the border and speed up returns; in addition to guaranteeing Frontex’s readiness to reinforce its operational support.
