Hungarian gov't spokesman urges for compromise in migrant issue

A spokesman with Hungarian government said on Friday that reaching a compromise on the migrant issue within the EU was imperative.

Zoltan Kovacs, the spokesman, said this on Hungarian public television Channel One while speaking of the European Council meeting set for next week.

He pointed out that Brussels does not appear ready to compromise or bridge differences in views on handling migrants, but is apparently pushing forward with its own agenda calling for mandatory distribution quotas of migrants among the EU members, which vehemently objected by Hungary.

He underlined that reaching a compromise was vital since experts have forecast that the migration problem "will be with us for many long decades to come."

As proposals to the alternatives to the EU's quota plan, Hungary has submitted a document with four basic principles, namely protection of the EU's outer borders, at most the temporary monitoring of interior EU boundaries, consideration of the amounts already spent by each EU member to protect outer borders, and management of immigration as a hazard, according to the spokesman. Enditem