Orbán convenes extraordinary meeting of V4 prime ministers due to growing migratory pressure – SME.sk

BUDAPEST. Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán convened an extraordinary meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Four in Budapest on Tuesday, Orbán’s spokesman Bertalan Havasi informed on Monday.

“Migratory pressure on Europe has continued to rise in recent weeks. Therefore, an extraordinary V4 summit will take place in Budapest tomorrow,” said Orbán, whose country currently chairs the V4 group.

The meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – in connection with the migration situation on the border with Belarus was originally requested by the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday.

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“The prime minister asked for the Visegrad Group to be convened because of the current geopolitical situation,” said Polish government spokesman Piotr Müller. He added that Morawiecki will visit several countries this week. He started a series of meetings on Sunday with talks with the prime ministers of the Baltic states.

Since the beginning of this year, the Polish Border Guard has recorded more than 34,000 attempts to cross the Polish-Belarusian border illegally, 6,000 of them since the beginning of this month. Since 2 September, a state of emergency has been in place in the Polish border area with Belarus.