German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has admitted that his country’s long-standing migration policy, “which initially only Hungary dared to oppose”, has caused “irreversible damage to their welfare state”, János Lázár, the minister of construction and transport, said on Wednesday.

“The German chancellor made a revealing admission over the weekend, but not everyone wants to take notice of it,” Lázár said in a post on Facebook. “But we have to take notice of it because next spring certain politicians will want to sell Hungary that same bill of goods in connection with which Friedrich Merz admitted at a CDU regional congress that they messed up.”

“In other words, the Germans caused irreversible damage to themselves and their famous welfare state with the migration policy which initially only Hungary dared to oppose, even at the cost of daily fine of 1 million euros,” the minister said.

“Will the German government also be fined after Merz’s admission?” Lázár said. He said Germany’s migration policy had not only caused social tensions but also economic problems and the emergence of parallel societies.

This, Lázár said, was also a problem for Hungary, arguing that “if the German economy is sick, then the Hungarian economy is also coughing.” It was for this reason, he added, that Hungary also had to pursue economic cooperation with the East.

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