'Brussels migrant pact has FAILED': EU migrant crisis spirals as violence breaks out in Hungary
The EU's migrant crisis is spiralling out of control, with Hungary's President Viktor Orban claiming the migrant pact has "failed"
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The EU's migrant crisis is spiralling out of control, with Hungary's President Viktor Orban claiming the migrant pact has "failed".
This comes as Germany battles an influx of migrants from Poland and the Czech Republic.
German leaders are under mountinbg pressure to tackle the stream of refugees entering the country.
Nancy Faeser, the country's interior minister will today announce temporary checks on Germany's borders with Poland and the Czech republic.
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But hitting out at the crisis, the Hungarian Prime Minister said: "The Brussels migrant pact has failed."
He claimed that the joint patrol of Serbian and Hungarian border guards had come under weapon fire as a result of what he called "migrant violence."
Orban said: "With this, migrants have crossed the Rubicon."
Using incendiary language, the Hungarian PM warned that refugees arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa “give the impression of a veritable invading army.”
Earlier this month, Ursula von der Leyen was forced to unveil a swathe of tough new measures after more than 100,000 migrants arrived in Lampedusa.
As well as unveiling a '10 point plan' to stop the flow of migrants into Italy, she has also handed over a large sum of cash to Tunisia as an incentive to stop the exodus from their borders.
As many as 100,000 migrants have arrived on the Italian Island in the last year, prompting the EU Commission President to visit the area on Sunday.
Her 10-point plan includes the deployment of the EU's border agency Frontex to help register and deport illegal migrants.
The agency will also increase surveillance in an effort to disband smuggling networks.
The EU also came under fire this month after it found itself embroiled in a "visa for bribes" scandal.
Poland has allegedly been handing out visas which allow foreign nationals to enter the EU, in exchange for bribes.
It has been accused of issuing as many as 250,000 visas to migrants from Asia and Africa since 2021, in return for bribes of several thousand euros each.
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In response to the allegations, the Polish government said it had decided to "carry out an extraordinary inspection and audit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Consular Affairs as well as all Polish consular establishments."
The spokesperson said the ministry had also decided to "terminate contracts with all outsourcing companies that handle visa applications."
The EU Commission has put mounting pressure on Warsaw to explain what happened and come clean about the extent of the crisis, sending the nation a list of 11 questions.
The questions are said to be aimed at assessing the scale of the scandal and its impact on security in the bloc.