Hungary's ruling party wants to close southern border to migrants
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's ruling Fidesz party wants to draw up legislation to effectively close its southern borders to illegal migrants, a Fidesz politician said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has criticized European Union proposals for migrant quotas as "bordering on insanity".
The quotas were drafted in response to the thousands of deaths among asylum-seekers trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean. The crisis has grown acute this year.
Antal Rogan, the head of Fidesz' parliamentary group, said on Sunday that by the end of May, 50,000 migrants had crossed Hungary's borders illegally, compared with 43,000 in the whole of 2014.
Most asylum-seekers move on to other European Union member states but Germany and Austria have signaled that they were planning to send some 15,000 migrants back to Hungary.
He said that therefore, "urgent steps" needed to be taken.
"Fidesz' parliamentary faction is considering drawing up a bill and practically making a proposal to close the southern border with certain legal means," Rogan told Kossuth radio. ...
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