Hungary opens border for Russians: Are terrorists and spies now also coming to the EU?

Translated:

**Hungary’s provocations are becoming a security risk: Now Orban is letting Russians and Belarusians into the EU as “guest workers” without security clearance – among them possibly spies and terrorists. Meanwhile, Poland is urging Orban to leave the EU and NATO.**

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>Hungary has caused displeasure in the EU with new provocations. For a few days now, Russians have been able to enter the EU via Hungary without any security clearance and move on unhindered to other EU states. This is made possible by the registration as guest workers in Hungary, which Prime Minister Viktor Orban extended to people from Russia and Belarus in July. Now there is great concern that Russian spies could also enter the EU or that the Kremlin could deliberately smuggle Russians into the EU for attacks.
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>Entering the country without a security check in the middle of a situation in which the Russian government and the Russian authorities are doing everything they can to weaken Europe through hybrid attacks is the wrong way to go, says EU foreign policy expert Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens) to the RedaktionsNetzwerk Germany (RND).
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## Finland closes border – Hungary lets Russians in

>In the spring, the Hungarian government had declared that it expected about 65,000 guest workers. They can bring their families with them and apply for a permanent residence permit after three years. Other EU countries, such as Finland, no longer allow Russians to enter the country. The government in Helsinki justified this with Russia’s attempts to destabilize the border and the EU states.
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>Increasing criticism of Hungary is also being voiced because of the oil dispute with Ukraine. The country, which was attacked by Russia, had put the Russian oil company Lukoil on the sanctions list in June and banned the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline in Ukraine. Hungary and Slovakia have since been cut off from one of their most important oil suppliers. Budapest accused the government in Kiev of blackmail, warned of an energy crisis and called for EU intervention. Energy expert Martin Vladimirov speaks of a “bluff” by Orban. Hungary is much more concerned that the Hungarian oil company MOL, which is closely linked to Orban, can continue its lucrative contracts with Russia, according to the expert from the Center for the Study of Democracy. There are enough alternatives and the supply stop will not lead to supply disruptions or an increase in fuel prices, Vladimirov writes in a guest article for the [portal Euractiv](https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/opinion/donagh-the-eu-should-call-orbans-oil-bluff).
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>Hungary and Slovakia had previously campaigned several times for exemptions from EU sanctions against the Russian oil industry. Although all EU states had committed to reducing their dependence on Russian energy sources, Hungary and Slovakia have even increased their dependence. At the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Hungary imported 50 percent of its oil from Russia, today it is more than 60 percent. Slovakia’s dependence is even greater. Meanwhile, Russian oil companies are trying to transport their crude oil by sea to Hungary and Slovakia.
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>Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has already announced countermeasures and wants to force the EU to intervene. Hungary does not want to revoke the veto against the disbursement of 500 million euros from the European Peace Facility, which EU states can use to reimburse arms deliveries to Ukraine, until Ukraine returns Russian oil to Hungary. On Sunday, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Władysław Teofil Bartoszewski questioned Hungary’s membership in the EU and NATO. “I really don’t understand why Hungary wants to be a member of organizations that it doesn’t like so much and that supposedly treat it so badly,” he said. Orban could simply join an alliance with Putin and other authoritarian states.
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>Prime Minister Orban has been blocking the disbursement of EU funds for more than a year and blackmailing the other states with ever new conditions. A few months ago, he wanted Kiev to drop sanctions against a Hungarian bank that continues to do business with Russia. Although Ukraine had given in, Hungary maintained the veto.

!ping Europe&Foreign-policy

Typically you don’t see a country trying to develop a Russian diaspora in their countries.

Hopefully they’re kicked out or suspended from Schengen, though the implications on Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece are a little sad since it would cut off the land connection to the rest of the EU, hopefully such a measure would be temporary.

Edit: ~~especially because the addition of Romania and Bulgaria to schegen is so recent.~~ I guess they’ll just have to hurry up and let Ukraine in (delusional I know)

And all of a sudden Europeans love strict immigration policies

Close the Croatian, Slovenian, Austrian and Slovakian Schengen borders with Hungary. The fuck.