302 result(s) for hungarian border fence
Serbian, Hungarian Police Agree On Joint Steps Against Illegal Migrants
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian and Serbian police chiefs met on Monday and agreed to take joint steps against illegal migration. Under the agreement, four mobile thermal cameras will be installed on the Serbian side of the joint border and twenty new police officers will go on duty on the Serbian-Macedonian border, Károly Papp, Hungary’s police chief, said after meeting his Serbian counterpart Milorad Veljovi ć in ...
Number Of Illegal Immigrants Over 60,000 In Hungary
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Since the beginning of 2015 more than 60,000 entrants have crossed into Hungary illegally, most of them from Serbia, an MP of ruling Fidesz said. Szilárd Németh referred to a “novel, economic kind of migration” mostly from Africa and the Middle East, but noted that the largest number of illegal immigrants arriving in Hungary were of Kosovar origin.
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 ...
Serbian, Hungarian Police Agree On Joint Steps Against Illegal Migrants
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungarian and Serbian police chiefs met on Monday and agreed to take joint steps against illegal migration. Under the agreement, four mobile thermal cameras will be installed on the Serbian side of the joint border and twenty new police officers will go on duty on the Serbian-Macedonian border, Károly Papp, Hungary’s police chief, said after meeting his Serbian counterpart Milorad Veljovi ć in ...
Number Of Illegal Immigrants Over 60,000 In Hungary
- 23 Jun 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Since the beginning of 2015 more than 60,000 entrants have crossed into Hungary illegally, most of them from Serbia, an MP of ruling Fidesz said. Szilárd Németh referred to a “novel, economic kind of migration” mostly from Africa and the Middle East, but noted that the largest number of illegal immigrants arriving in Hungary were of Kosovar origin.
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 ...