Migrants protest as Hungary shutters Budapest train station

Migrants leave the main Eastern Railway station in Budapest, Hungary, September 1, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

Hungary's ruling centre-right Fidesz party, led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has struck a combative tone in the migrant crisis. Antal Rogan, the Fidesz party's parliament caucus leader, said on Tuesday "the very existence of Christian Europe" was under threat

"Would we like our grandchildren to grow up in a United European Caliphate? My answer to that is no," Rogan told the pro-government daily Magyar Idok.

Rogan criticised EU leaders, including Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, for what he said was an overly lenient attitude to migration.

"Will Mr. Juncker be there at the funeral of the illegal migrants who died in the truck (found in Austria last week)? Because it is irresponsible statements like his that allow human traffickers to get ill-fated people to do anything."

Orban's chief of staff, Janos Lazar, told a Parliament committee on Tuesday that immigration must be controlled tightly.

"I do not think Hungary would need a single immigrant from Africa or the Middle East," Lazar said. "Europe must use its own human resources fundamentally and if it wants an immigration policy it must be regulated and controlled."

"In the past decade... a leftist view has dominated the European Commission and the European Parliament, that the way to develop Europe was through allowing everyone in and accepting everyone without checks, rules and controls."