531 result(s) for illegal migration
Hungarian Government's Information Campaign Against Illegal Migration
- 4 Sep 2015 9:08 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian government is launching an information campaign combating illegal immigration. During the Government’s short but focused campaign (which will use the services of international advertising agency J. Walter Thompson), announcements in given local languages will be placed in leading newspapers in countries of origin and transit countries most associated with illegal migration. The ...
Hungarian Left-Liberal Opposition Against Migration Related Amendments Tabled To Parliament
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Left-liberal opposition parties protested against a package of legal amendments tabled in parliament on government handling of mass migration. Lawmakers began a twoday debate of the bills on Thursday. Dialogue for Hungary (PM) called the amendments “inhumane and vile” as well as unconstitutional. PM lawmaker Tímea Szabó said the amendments would not offer any genuine solution to the migrant ...
Photo Article: Refugees Leave Budapest On Foot Towards Austrian Border
- 4 Sep 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
About 2500 migrants decided to leave Budapest on foot on Friday afternoon and started to march westwards, saying they were heading towards Austria and Germany. The crowd includes mostly men and younger migrants but also some disabled persons, as well as families carrying children. Around 4 pm the marching migrants, preparing to walk 175 kilometres to the border, have reached the M1 motorway where ...
Hungarian Govt: Schengen Does Not Answer Migration Issue
- 4 Sep 2015 3:00 AM
- current affairs
The Schengen Agreement does not answer the problem of migration, and therefore the rules of border surveillance must be made more stringent, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on the public service television news channel M1 on Friday.
Hungarian Civil Group S Protest Planned Legal Amendments On Migration
- 3 Sep 2015 10:00 AM
- current affairs
Planned legal amendments to allow army mobilisation in connection with the migrant situation and making illegal border crossing into a crime will bring back practices from the Communist era, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said. TASZ said lawmakers should not approve a law that “disregards the basic requirements of constitutionality” even on the premise that a large number of migrants ...
Xpat Opinion: Migration Getting Out Of Control In Hungary
- 3 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Pundits across the political spectrum fear that migration will cause an ever bigger problem in Europe in the absence of a common EU migration framework. The lack of a joint EU solution may also endanger free movement in the EU. In the latest development in the migrant crisis, Budapest’s Keleti railway station was closed down, as a growing and increasingly desperate crowd of asylum seekers tried ...
Hungary’s PM Orbán Defends Migrant Stance In OP-ED
- 3 Sep 2015 4:20 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have warning that the current migrant crisis may spark an “explosion”, and he defended Hungary’s decision to build a fence along its southern border with Serbia, in an op-ed article published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “What we are witnessing today threatens Europe as a whole…” the premier said, noting that so far this year nearly 150,000 “illegal immigrants” ...
Hungary Rejects Accusation That It Is Not Taking Appropriate Action Re Migrants
- 2 Sep 2015 9:30 AM
- current affairs
Hungary firmly rejects any accusation that suggests that its actions concerning the issue of migrants are wanting, Levente Magyar, foreign ministry state secretary for economic diplomacy, said. Referring to criticism by Austrian officials regarding Hungary’s decision to allow migrants to travel to westwards on Monday, he told a news conference that within 24 hours another country that is in an ...
Order Must Be Restored Along Hungarian Border
- 31 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary has no choice but to restore order along its border and that of the European Union, because otherwise it will be unable to successfully stem the flow of illegal immigrants, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on Hungarian M1 television’s “Actual Channel” programme on Thursday evening. According to the Government Spokesperson, an untenable state of affairs has developed not only in ...
Hungarian Government's Information Campaign Against Illegal Migration
- 4 Sep 2015 9:08 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian government is launching an information campaign combating illegal immigration. During the Government’s short but focused campaign (which will use the services of international advertising agency J. Walter Thompson), announcements in given local languages will be placed in leading newspapers in countries of origin and transit countries most associated with illegal migration. The ...
Hungarian Left-Liberal Opposition Against Migration Related Amendments Tabled To Parliament
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Left-liberal opposition parties protested against a package of legal amendments tabled in parliament on government handling of mass migration. Lawmakers began a twoday debate of the bills on Thursday. Dialogue for Hungary (PM) called the amendments “inhumane and vile” as well as unconstitutional. PM lawmaker Tímea Szabó said the amendments would not offer any genuine solution to the migrant ...
Photo Article: Refugees Leave Budapest On Foot Towards Austrian Border
- 4 Sep 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
About 2500 migrants decided to leave Budapest on foot on Friday afternoon and started to march westwards, saying they were heading towards Austria and Germany. The crowd includes mostly men and younger migrants but also some disabled persons, as well as families carrying children. Around 4 pm the marching migrants, preparing to walk 175 kilometres to the border, have reached the M1 motorway where ...
Hungarian Govt: Schengen Does Not Answer Migration Issue
- 4 Sep 2015 3:00 AM
- current affairs
The Schengen Agreement does not answer the problem of migration, and therefore the rules of border surveillance must be made more stringent, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on the public service television news channel M1 on Friday.
Hungarian Civil Group S Protest Planned Legal Amendments On Migration
- 3 Sep 2015 10:00 AM
- current affairs
Planned legal amendments to allow army mobilisation in connection with the migrant situation and making illegal border crossing into a crime will bring back practices from the Communist era, the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (TASZ) said. TASZ said lawmakers should not approve a law that “disregards the basic requirements of constitutionality” even on the premise that a large number of migrants ...
Xpat Opinion: Migration Getting Out Of Control In Hungary
- 3 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Pundits across the political spectrum fear that migration will cause an ever bigger problem in Europe in the absence of a common EU migration framework. The lack of a joint EU solution may also endanger free movement in the EU. In the latest development in the migrant crisis, Budapest’s Keleti railway station was closed down, as a growing and increasingly desperate crowd of asylum seekers tried ...
Hungary’s PM Orbán Defends Migrant Stance In OP-ED
- 3 Sep 2015 4:20 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have warning that the current migrant crisis may spark an “explosion”, and he defended Hungary’s decision to build a fence along its southern border with Serbia, in an op-ed article published by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “What we are witnessing today threatens Europe as a whole…” the premier said, noting that so far this year nearly 150,000 “illegal immigrants” ...
Hungary Rejects Accusation That It Is Not Taking Appropriate Action Re Migrants
- 2 Sep 2015 9:30 AM
- current affairs
Hungary firmly rejects any accusation that suggests that its actions concerning the issue of migrants are wanting, Levente Magyar, foreign ministry state secretary for economic diplomacy, said. Referring to criticism by Austrian officials regarding Hungary’s decision to allow migrants to travel to westwards on Monday, he told a news conference that within 24 hours another country that is in an ...
Order Must Be Restored Along Hungarian Border
- 31 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary has no choice but to restore order along its border and that of the European Union, because otherwise it will be unable to successfully stem the flow of illegal immigrants, Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on Hungarian M1 television’s “Actual Channel” programme on Thursday evening. According to the Government Spokesperson, an untenable state of affairs has developed not only in ...