“If Greece is incapable of protecting its own borders then the EU must be given the right to protect the country’s borders with concrete security forces and border surveillance”, was the eyebrow-raising comment by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday.

The controversial Hungarian leader spoke outside Parliament today after a meeting with European People’s Party (EPP) official Manfred Weber, who heads the grouping in the European Parliament.

Weber, on his part, said he supports the idea of the EU intervening  to protect its external borders if a country’s national authorities have failed to do so…

Orban added that such a framework currently does not exist and must be “quickly established”.

The conservative Hungarian PM has emerged as one of the toughest critics of the EU response to the migrant crisis, especially the prospect of “perpetual open borders”.