Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called on Thursday for anti-immigration politicians to take over EU institutions. "Hungary's objective is to have each and every single institution of the European Union, a majority of forces that reject immigration," Orban told reporters.
His comments came as some 49 migrants, who had been stranded at sea onboard a rescue ship for more than two weeks, disembarked after nine member states reached a deal.
For Swedish MEP Kristina Winberg, from the Sweden Democrats Party, Orban's comments echo what many countries think.
"We can see now a lot of countries, member states, have enough. We have this mass immigration and we cannot handle the situation," she told ' Raw Politics show, denouncing the current approach of trying to enforce migrant relocation quotas.
But Linnea Engstrom, a fellow Swedish MEP but from the Green Party, branded Orban's speech as "dreadful, fear-mongering". "He's not offering any solutions at all. It's not an issue you can just shut out or to solve by closing borders," she said. "We have to have a strategy."
Watch the panel debate the issue on Raw Politics in the video player, above.
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