‘Europe defenseless against migrants’:

Hungary’s foreign minister said Friday that Europe remains threatened by unchecked immigration and must focus on stopping it, three years after the mass influx of about a million people.

Peter Szijjarto told The Associated Press that the European Union should screen asylum-seekers in camps created outside its own borders, which he said the bloc should be able to police more efficiently.

“Now we are exactly where we used to be three years ago,” he said. “The European Union is defenseless from the south and from the southeast.”

Szijjarto spoke on the sidelines of a regional EU foreign ministers meeting in Greece that discussed energy cooperation, and the bloc’s expansion before a summit next week in Bulgaria.

Greece is a major gateway to the EU for asylum-seekers, and has seen increasing arrivals in recent months. (AP)