BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The razor-wire fence Hungary is building on its border with Serbia is needed to secure the European Union's external border and will remain as long as large numbers of migrants keep trying to enter the country, Hungary's foreign minister said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told The Associated Press that "only a physical obstacle" could help Hungary protect its border with Serbia as long as migrants were able to pour into fellow EU member Greece and then make their way north. "If we are able to defend the border of Greece, then that migration pressure will be much lower in Hungary," Szijjarto said, adding that disabling boats used by human traffickers on the Mediterranean Sea would help reduce the number of migrants.
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