Belgium’s top migration official has criticized Hungary for threatening to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in retaliation against European Union policies. She suggests they will be stopped at the border.. Hungary’s anti-immigrant government says it's serious about a plan to provide asylum-seekers free one-way travel to Brussels.
Hungary ’s State Secretary Bence Rétvári, right, and National Deputy Chief of Police Janos Kuczik hold a joint press conference at the bus station of Nepliget, Budapest, Hungary , Friday Sept. 6, 2024, backdropped by a row of passenger buses with illuminated signs reading “Röszke- Brussels ” — a route that would take migrants from Hungary ’s southern border with Serbia to the EU headquarters in Belgium .
De Moor has asked Belgium’s EU ambassador to speak to his Hungarian counterpart about the threat. She also wants the commission to take a firm stand against it. The statement noted that the buses would have to “unlawfully cross the territory of other member states to arrive illegally in Belgium.” They would have to cross either France or Germany – which along with Luxembourg and the Netherlands surround Belgium – and possibly transit other EU member countries like Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, Slovakia or the Czech Republic.
All are part Europe’s Schengen Area, a group of 29 countries, most of them EU nations, which people can move between without facing ID checks. However, Austria, France, Germany and Slovenia currently have checks in place due to concerns about security and migrant movements.
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