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Dániel Bohár: President, there’s war in the East and war in the South: the world’s in turmoil. Yesterday you ended your day at the police headquarters in Teve Street. What security risk does this pose for Hungary?
Every war poses a risk. In the modern world, even wars thousands of kilometres away from us have at least an indirect impact on our lives. If nothing else, it’s through energy security, because it raises the price of oil, gas and energy – and so also threatens the price level in Hungary. Since migration has swamped Western Europe, something from which Hungary has fortunately excluded itself from, there’s been a constant threat of terrorism in Europe. If something happens in the Middle East, the threat of terrorism immediately increases everywhere in Europe. We’re a migrant-free zone, but in our neighbouring countries there is such a threat, such a terrorist threat, and therefore we can’t consider its level here to be zero either. And in such times we need to take extraordinary security measures – which I did yesterday. Today the consequences of this can be seen on the streets of Budapest, at airports and at busy transport hubs, with strengthened terrorist protection measures in place.
