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Refugees Close Hungary's M5 Motorway
- 10 Sep 2015 9:30 AM
- current affairs
A section of the M5 motorway in southeast Hungary had to be closed yesterday afternoon when a crowd of 200-250 refugees began walking towards Budapest after fleeing a Röszke detention centre. Police provided an escort and eventually persuaded them to be taken to reception stations in buses. A Syrian woman attempting to escape threw a piece of concrete at a police officer in Röszke on Wednesday, ...
Refugees Coming From Hungary Segregated On Trains
- 10 Sep 2015 9:10 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of refugees crossed into Austria on foot throughout the day yesterday, having been forced off Vienna-bound trains at nearby Hegyeshalom. Magyar Idõk writes that “immigrants boarded trains for Austria at Keleti station by the hundreds, leaving barely any space for ordinary travellers”.
Over 1,000 Migrants Set Off In Hungary For Austria Border On Foot
- 10 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A group of over 1,000 migrants set off on foot from Hegyeshalom in the direction of the Austrian border on Wednesday afternoon, public news channel M1 reported. This was the second group that attempted to cross into Austria on foot today. The migrants were reported to have arrived from Budapest by a charter train service to Hegyeshalom station, the Hungarian border point.
Minister Okays Ceding Budapest Corvinus Departments To Gödöllő University
- 10 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The human resources minister has passed a final decision to move three departments of Budapest’s Corvinus University to Szent István University in Gödöllő, a town near Budapest. Deans of the departments of food science, horticultural science and landscape architecture said after talks with Zoltán Balog, the minister, that they had had no opportunity to negotiate.
Simicskó Vows To Defend Hungary, EU Borders
- 10 Sep 2015 5:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary can protect its own and the European Union’s Schengen borders and will prove that ability, István Simicskó, the new Hungarian defence minister, told public television M1. He said that Hungary’s defence system can and must be used to prevent a “new type of migration” across the country, compromising the security of its residents. Asked how the military would be used along the border, the ...
Migrants At Budapest Keleti Station Number 2,000
- 10 Sep 2015 4:58 AM
- current affairs
By Thursday morning the number of migrants waiting at Budapest’s Keleti railway station has reached 2,000, Tibor Lakatos, a senior officer of the national police, told the press. Lakatos said the police were working to direct the illegal migrants to reception points of the immigration office. Lakatos said that some 1,000 police officers were working along the Hungary-Serbia border in the south.
Mr. Bean Actor Rowan Atkinson Arrives To Budapest
- 10 Sep 2015 1:28 AM
- entertainment
Rowan Atkinson, the British actor known for his role as Mr. Bean, has arrived in Hungary to play the fictional French detective Maigret in a major two-part television adaptation of French writer Georges Simenon’s Maigret novels, commissioned by the British broadcaster ITV. The episodes are to be produced by UK-based Ealing Studios and Maigret Productions.
Szijjártó: Swedish PM’s Remarks On Hungary ‘Unacceptable’
- 9 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s recent remarks about Hungary in connection with the migrant crisis are “hypocritical and unacceptable,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said. “I consider it extremely hypocritical and unacceptable when somebody confuses the transfer of European Union resources with the issue of immigration, one of the greatest challenges facing the European Union,” he told ...
Migrants Board Buses After Fleeing Collection Point In Hungary
- 9 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants who earlier broke out of a registration point near Röszke on the border with Serbia have boarded buses organised by police. A group of 100-150 migrants, including families with children, broke through a line of police officers on Tuesday afternoon, and ran towards road 5, MTI’s local correspondent said from the site. The group was stopped near a railway crossing at Szeged- Kecskés ...
Refugees Close Hungary's M5 Motorway
- 10 Sep 2015 9:30 AM
- current affairs
A section of the M5 motorway in southeast Hungary had to be closed yesterday afternoon when a crowd of 200-250 refugees began walking towards Budapest after fleeing a Röszke detention centre. Police provided an escort and eventually persuaded them to be taken to reception stations in buses. A Syrian woman attempting to escape threw a piece of concrete at a police officer in Röszke on Wednesday, ...
Refugees Coming From Hungary Segregated On Trains
- 10 Sep 2015 9:10 AM
- current affairs
Hundreds of refugees crossed into Austria on foot throughout the day yesterday, having been forced off Vienna-bound trains at nearby Hegyeshalom. Magyar Idõk writes that “immigrants boarded trains for Austria at Keleti station by the hundreds, leaving barely any space for ordinary travellers”.
Over 1,000 Migrants Set Off In Hungary For Austria Border On Foot
- 10 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A group of over 1,000 migrants set off on foot from Hegyeshalom in the direction of the Austrian border on Wednesday afternoon, public news channel M1 reported. This was the second group that attempted to cross into Austria on foot today. The migrants were reported to have arrived from Budapest by a charter train service to Hegyeshalom station, the Hungarian border point.
Minister Okays Ceding Budapest Corvinus Departments To Gödöllő University
- 10 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
The human resources minister has passed a final decision to move three departments of Budapest’s Corvinus University to Szent István University in Gödöllő, a town near Budapest. Deans of the departments of food science, horticultural science and landscape architecture said after talks with Zoltán Balog, the minister, that they had had no opportunity to negotiate.
Simicskó Vows To Defend Hungary, EU Borders
- 10 Sep 2015 5:00 AM
- current affairs
Hungary can protect its own and the European Union’s Schengen borders and will prove that ability, István Simicskó, the new Hungarian defence minister, told public television M1. He said that Hungary’s defence system can and must be used to prevent a “new type of migration” across the country, compromising the security of its residents. Asked how the military would be used along the border, the ...
Migrants At Budapest Keleti Station Number 2,000
- 10 Sep 2015 4:58 AM
- current affairs
By Thursday morning the number of migrants waiting at Budapest’s Keleti railway station has reached 2,000, Tibor Lakatos, a senior officer of the national police, told the press. Lakatos said the police were working to direct the illegal migrants to reception points of the immigration office. Lakatos said that some 1,000 police officers were working along the Hungary-Serbia border in the south.
Mr. Bean Actor Rowan Atkinson Arrives To Budapest
- 10 Sep 2015 1:28 AM
- entertainment
Rowan Atkinson, the British actor known for his role as Mr. Bean, has arrived in Hungary to play the fictional French detective Maigret in a major two-part television adaptation of French writer Georges Simenon’s Maigret novels, commissioned by the British broadcaster ITV. The episodes are to be produced by UK-based Ealing Studios and Maigret Productions.
Szijjártó: Swedish PM’s Remarks On Hungary ‘Unacceptable’
- 9 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven’s recent remarks about Hungary in connection with the migrant crisis are “hypocritical and unacceptable,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said. “I consider it extremely hypocritical and unacceptable when somebody confuses the transfer of European Union resources with the issue of immigration, one of the greatest challenges facing the European Union,” he told ...
Migrants Board Buses After Fleeing Collection Point In Hungary
- 9 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Migrants who earlier broke out of a registration point near Röszke on the border with Serbia have boarded buses organised by police. A group of 100-150 migrants, including families with children, broke through a line of police officers on Tuesday afternoon, and ran towards road 5, MTI’s local correspondent said from the site. The group was stopped near a railway crossing at Szeged- Kecskés ...