Border patrols in Bács-Kiskun country arrested 259 people who had entered Hungary illegally from Serbia on Thursday and Friday. Some 290 Albanians were stopped at the Serbian side of the border.

The German embassy in Pristina warned on Sunday of a wave of refugees fleeing Kosovo for Germany and called for swift action.

Hundreds of people leave Kosovo every day with the intention of migrating to Western Europe, using Hungary as a transit country.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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