OREANDA-NEWS. On Monday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public television channel M1 that three Acts were amended by Parliament that day. This development serves to improve the effectiveness of border protection measures along Hungary’s borders – including its external Schengen border – and thus improves security in Hungary and in the European Union as well.

Mr. Bakondi stressed that within eight kilometres of the border Hungarian authorities are successfully apprehending almost one hundred per cent of people crossing Hungary’s borders illegally; experience has shown that these people often behave aggressively.

On Monday Parliament decided on the extension of asylum procedures conducted on the border. Mr. Bakondi said that this measure can assist in preventing masses of migrants staying in Hungary illegally, and the burden on reception centres will also be reduced.

Mr. Bakondi explained that when the police have sufficient proof of someone crossing the border illegally they will still be subject to criminal proceedings and will be brought before a court. He added that the amendment was necessary because in many cases a crime cannot be proved to have taken place, and the majority of migrants who have been taken to open camps have left the facilities without waiting for their asylum requests to be processed.