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New Migrant Collection Point At Röszke In Hungary Opens On Friday
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A new collection point for migrants to be set up at Röszke, in southern Hungary, will have capacity for 1,000 people, the national police headquarters said. The new facility built at a cost of 38 million forints (EUR 120,000) is planned to be completed on Friday. MTI was told that the collection point will be located near the hangar where the registration of migrants is currently being carried ...
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 ...
Allowing Millions Of Migrants Into Europe Will Destroy Continent, Hungary's PM Warns
- 4 Sep 2015 2:00 AM
- current affairs
There is a serious difference in opinion between the EU and Hungary on migration and Germany’s “mistaken” communication is responsible for the “mess” at Budapest’s Keleti railway station which saw thousands of angry migrants attempting to board Germany-bound trains over the past days, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular Friday morning radio interview with the state broadcaster Kossuth ...
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” ...
PM Orbán: EU Criticising Hungary For Doing Its Duty
- 3 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called on the EU to refrain from criticising Hungary when all the country was doing was fulfilling its duties to the bloc. Referring to a package of proposed amendments before parliament to tighten up border security and immigration rules, Orbán said the new laws would “bring about a new situation in Hungary and Europe”, noting that asylum-seekers, human smugglers and ...
Hungarian Defence, National Security Committees Discuss Migrant Crisis
- 2 Sep 2015 9:50 AM
- current affairs
Over twenty government officials attended the joint session of parliament’s defence and national security committees to discuss Hungary’s response to the ongoing migrant crisis. Interior ministry state secretary Károly Kontrát told the committees that once the construction of the fence on the border with Serbia is complete, it will be secure enough to stem the flow of illegal migrants.
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 ...
Video: Migrants Breach Hungary's Razor Wire Fence
- 1 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- video
Britain, France and Germany have called for reception centres to be set up, and the finger printing of migrants and refugees, once they arrive in Europe.
The three countries have requested an emergency EU meeting, to be held in Brussels in two weeks time, to discuss "concrete" measures to better deal with the increasing numbers of new arrivals. The BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports from the city ...
Hungary Rejects French Foreign Minister’s “Accusations”
- 1 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian government rejects any “ignoble accusations” such as recently made by Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, a state secretary at the Hungarian foreign ministry told a press conference. Levente Magyar spoke after talks with the ambassador or France, who had been summoned to the ministry over his minister’s criticism of Hungary for building a fence along its southern border ...
New Migrant Collection Point At Röszke In Hungary Opens On Friday
- 4 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A new collection point for migrants to be set up at Röszke, in southern Hungary, will have capacity for 1,000 people, the national police headquarters said. The new facility built at a cost of 38 million forints (EUR 120,000) is planned to be completed on Friday. MTI was told that the collection point will be located near the hangar where the registration of migrants is currently being carried ...
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 ...
Allowing Millions Of Migrants Into Europe Will Destroy Continent, Hungary's PM Warns
- 4 Sep 2015 2:00 AM
- current affairs
There is a serious difference in opinion between the EU and Hungary on migration and Germany’s “mistaken” communication is responsible for the “mess” at Budapest’s Keleti railway station which saw thousands of angry migrants attempting to board Germany-bound trains over the past days, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular Friday morning radio interview with the state broadcaster Kossuth ...
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” ...
PM Orbán: EU Criticising Hungary For Doing Its Duty
- 3 Sep 2015 4:00 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called on the EU to refrain from criticising Hungary when all the country was doing was fulfilling its duties to the bloc. Referring to a package of proposed amendments before parliament to tighten up border security and immigration rules, Orbán said the new laws would “bring about a new situation in Hungary and Europe”, noting that asylum-seekers, human smugglers and ...
Hungarian Defence, National Security Committees Discuss Migrant Crisis
- 2 Sep 2015 9:50 AM
- current affairs
Over twenty government officials attended the joint session of parliament’s defence and national security committees to discuss Hungary’s response to the ongoing migrant crisis. Interior ministry state secretary Károly Kontrát told the committees that once the construction of the fence on the border with Serbia is complete, it will be secure enough to stem the flow of illegal migrants.
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 ...
Video: Migrants Breach Hungary's Razor Wire Fence
- 1 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- video
Britain, France and Germany have called for reception centres to be set up, and the finger printing of migrants and refugees, once they arrive in Europe.
The three countries have requested an emergency EU meeting, to be held in Brussels in two weeks time, to discuss "concrete" measures to better deal with the increasing numbers of new arrivals. The BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports from the city ...
Hungary Rejects French Foreign Minister’s “Accusations”
- 1 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The Hungarian government rejects any “ignoble accusations” such as recently made by Laurent Fabius, the French foreign minister, a state secretary at the Hungarian foreign ministry told a press conference. Levente Magyar spoke after talks with the ambassador or France, who had been summoned to the ministry over his minister’s criticism of Hungary for building a fence along its southern border ...