State Secretary Bence Rétvári said the European Union must take action against forced conscription in Ukraine and regarding the death of József Sebestyén.

Before a meeting of the bloc's Justice and Home Affairs Council in Copenhagen on Tuesday, the parliamentary state secretary noted that migration would be the main topic of the meeting, where he would continue to press Hungary's case that its southern border fence "is the solution" and "Hungary will not accept illegal migrants".

In a video uploaded to his social media page, he said he would also raise Sebestyén's case since EU interior ministers should grasp that "our Hungarian compatriot József Sebestyén was brutally beaten during forced conscription in Ukraine" as the case concerned an EU citizen as well as a Hungarian one. "The Hungarian government has taken action; the European Union must follow suit," he said.

Regarding migration, he said ministers would be mulling "innovative proposals for managing migration".

"We have a 10-year innovative proposal: the southern border fence and the requirement that all procedures are carried out outside the territory of the EU.

More and more people agreed with the Hungarian government on this score, he said. Yet the European Commission "is still deaf to these proposals", preferring instead the forced distribution of migrants based on quotas, so that as many countries as possible agree to accept as many migrants as possible.

Rétvári said only 9 out of the 27 member states had responded to the commission's call to accept migrants.