542 result(s) for fence
Hungarian Police Catch 1,941 Illegal Entrants
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Border police caught 1,941 illegal border entrants from Friday through Sunday, up from around 1,500 on recent weekends. Criminal proceedings were launched against 11 suspected human traffickers, and six others for falsification of public documents. Interior Ministry state secretary Károly Kontrát said the police were bolstered by more than 600 personnel at the southern border and plan further ...
Hungarian Police To Patrol Serbia Border
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary will send 20 police officers to serve on Serbia’s border with Macedonia, the two countries’ police chiefs agreed in Szeged on Monday. Hungary’s Károly Papp said the 20 officers as well as four mobile heat-sensing cameras will be deployed in Serbia next week. In addition, the Hungarian, Serb and Austrian police forces will set up a unit to investigate people-smuggling, Papp said after ...
Amnesty Protests For Refugees In Budapest
- 22 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian office of Amnesty International staged a protest outside the main entrance to Parliament on Saturday to mark World Refugees Day. Organisers said they aimed to draw attention to the plight of people in distress and to protest against misleading questions on the national consultation and the fence planned to be built on the border with Serbia. Orsolya Jenei, head of the Hungarian ...
Hungarian Govt Must Tackle “Balkan Transit Route”
- 20 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungary-Serbia border has become a “Balkan transit route” to which the government must respond, Szilárd Németh, a lawmaker of the ruling Fidesz party said. Illegal migrant traffic across the Hungarian- Serbian border is the highest of any European Union border, he told a press conference. Hungary received more than 50,000 illegal entrants this year by the end of May, compared with 47,000 ...
Hungary Fence To Meet NATO Standards
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The fence the government is planning to build between Hungary and Serbia will meet NATO standards, Szilárd Németh, vice-chair of parliament’s national security committee, told reporters after a closed-door meeting of the body. Németh said that 99% of illegal entrants to Hungary arrived through Serbia, and building a fence is an “important and necessary” measure. He added, however, that the fence ...
Bokros: Hungary Needs Immigrants
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary needs immigrants, Lajos Bokros, leader of the non-parliamentary party Modern Hungary Movement, said at a demonstration against the government’s immigration policy held in front of Parliament. “Taking in economic immigrants is a national interest, as they help create jobs and pay taxes … provided there is good governance,” Bokros told some 150 protesters, adding that immigrants needed to ...
Muižnieks: Hungary’s Building Fence Along Serbia Border “Illadvised”
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s plan to stop immigrants from entering the country by building a fence along its southern borders is “ill-advised”, the human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe said in a microblog entry. Nils Muižnieks said that “focus should be on ensuring access to asylum, not impeding it”. Hungary announced on Wednesday preparations for a 4 metre high fence along a 175 kilometre section of ...
Hungarian Government Is Not Happy About Building A Fence
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Government is not happy about building a fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border, but cannot wait; it must guarantee the security of the country, which includes the protection of its borders, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference „Governmentinfo 13. What does the Government do and why?” held jointly with András Giró-Szász, State Secretary ...
Lawmakers Debate Migration Rules, Fence Along Hungarian Border
- 18 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Lawmakers started a debate in parliament over an amendment filed by the government to tighten rules on granting refugee status in Hungary. The bill, submitted by three senior Fidesz officials, motioned to declare some countries “safe” in terms of immigration and declare that asylum-seekers arriving to Hungary from those transit countries should be denied refugee status.
Hungarian Police Catch 1,941 Illegal Entrants
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Border police caught 1,941 illegal border entrants from Friday through Sunday, up from around 1,500 on recent weekends. Criminal proceedings were launched against 11 suspected human traffickers, and six others for falsification of public documents. Interior Ministry state secretary Károly Kontrát said the police were bolstered by more than 600 personnel at the southern border and plan further ...
Hungarian Police To Patrol Serbia Border
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary will send 20 police officers to serve on Serbia’s border with Macedonia, the two countries’ police chiefs agreed in Szeged on Monday. Hungary’s Károly Papp said the 20 officers as well as four mobile heat-sensing cameras will be deployed in Serbia next week. In addition, the Hungarian, Serb and Austrian police forces will set up a unit to investigate people-smuggling, Papp said after ...
Amnesty Protests For Refugees In Budapest
- 22 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian office of Amnesty International staged a protest outside the main entrance to Parliament on Saturday to mark World Refugees Day. Organisers said they aimed to draw attention to the plight of people in distress and to protest against misleading questions on the national consultation and the fence planned to be built on the border with Serbia. Orsolya Jenei, head of the Hungarian ...
Hungarian Govt Must Tackle “Balkan Transit Route”
- 20 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungary-Serbia border has become a “Balkan transit route” to which the government must respond, Szilárd Németh, a lawmaker of the ruling Fidesz party said. Illegal migrant traffic across the Hungarian- Serbian border is the highest of any European Union border, he told a press conference. Hungary received more than 50,000 illegal entrants this year by the end of May, compared with 47,000 ...
Hungary Fence To Meet NATO Standards
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The fence the government is planning to build between Hungary and Serbia will meet NATO standards, Szilárd Németh, vice-chair of parliament’s national security committee, told reporters after a closed-door meeting of the body. Németh said that 99% of illegal entrants to Hungary arrived through Serbia, and building a fence is an “important and necessary” measure. He added, however, that the fence ...
Bokros: Hungary Needs Immigrants
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary needs immigrants, Lajos Bokros, leader of the non-parliamentary party Modern Hungary Movement, said at a demonstration against the government’s immigration policy held in front of Parliament. “Taking in economic immigrants is a national interest, as they help create jobs and pay taxes … provided there is good governance,” Bokros told some 150 protesters, adding that immigrants needed to ...
Muižnieks: Hungary’s Building Fence Along Serbia Border “Illadvised”
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary’s plan to stop immigrants from entering the country by building a fence along its southern borders is “ill-advised”, the human rights commissioner of the Council of Europe said in a microblog entry. Nils Muižnieks said that “focus should be on ensuring access to asylum, not impeding it”. Hungary announced on Wednesday preparations for a 4 metre high fence along a 175 kilometre section of ...
Hungarian Government Is Not Happy About Building A Fence
- 19 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Government is not happy about building a fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border, but cannot wait; it must guarantee the security of the country, which includes the protection of its borders, János Lázár, the Minister heading the Prime Minister’s Office said at his press conference „Governmentinfo 13. What does the Government do and why?” held jointly with András Giró-Szász, State Secretary ...
Lawmakers Debate Migration Rules, Fence Along Hungarian Border
- 18 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Lawmakers started a debate in parliament over an amendment filed by the government to tighten rules on granting refugee status in Hungary. The bill, submitted by three senior Fidesz officials, motioned to declare some countries “safe” in terms of immigration and declare that asylum-seekers arriving to Hungary from those transit countries should be denied refugee status.















