The €32 million cost approved for the budget amounts to 11 times what the country currently spends annually on services to process refugee applications. Speakers denounced the wall, called for solidarity with migrants, and for the government to spend their money instead on public services. “The Hungarian government has a talent for building walls, it’s raising newer and newer walls between layers of society, fighting and blindly firing away from its trench. After the countless symbolic walls, now, at the peak of its cynicism (or at least we hope that it is the peak), the government is building a real wall. Viktor Orbán and his whole brigade, paid and voluntary advisors – we won’t let them commit such a disgrace, not with this country!