159 result(s) for water police
Video: Investigation Started Into Manner Of Food Distribution
- 11 Sep 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Responding to the release of a video showing police in the Röszke camp throwing bags of food and bottled water to migrants, a police spokesperson said an investigation had been launched. The video had been recorded at the southern border camp by the wife of an Austrian 'green' politician who had been distributing humanitarian aid at the camp.
Eleni Kounalakis: Hungary’s Xenophobic Response
- 8 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Op-ed piece written by former US ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis published by the New York Times on September 6th, 2015.
The scene at Budapest’s Keleti train station is returning to normal. Trains are running again, and most of the thousands of desperate people stranded there last week are on their way to other, more hospitable countries in Europe. Hungary, a country rarely in the ...
The scene at Budapest’s Keleti train station is returning to normal. Trains are running again, and most of the thousands of desperate people stranded there last week are on their way to other, more hospitable countries in Europe. Hungary, a country rarely in the ...
Xpat Opinion: Humanity Delivers To Budapest
- 8 Sep 2015 5:30 AM
- community & culture
By Liz Frommer: What an incredible difference. Keleti station seemed largely vacant as we first entered the initial passageway. Further progressing into the vast area, tents were here and there, and people still lying on the ground. But something was distinctly different. Aside from the lack of bodies you had to sidestep through, there was a distinct feeling of elation. The intense, heaviness we ...
Dispatches: Stranded In Budapest’s Train Station
- 4 Sep 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
By Lydia Gall: “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will really go to [a] camp?” asked Mohammed, 34, from Syria, when I told him that the train he was about to board this morning was not heading to Austria and Germany but to a processing center outside Budapest.
Jobbik, Socialists Each Make Proposals For Hungarian Border Crisis Management
- 27 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party has proposed amending the constitution so that the armed forces can be mobilised without any legal uncertainties to protect Hungary’s border. The Socialists, on the other hand, called for setting up more reception centres and speeding up asylum procedures on site. “Hungary should make it clear that it does not allow illegal migrants to cross its territory and ...
Budapest Creates Areas For Migrants In Transit
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The city of Budapest will set up designated transit areas in the capital where migrants passing through the city can take advantage of basic hygiene and medical services, the municipal council’s chief law enforcement officer announced. After talks with Budapest Mayor István Tarlós it was agreed that areas would be cordoned off near Keleti, Nyugati and Déli train stations where basic services can ...
Civil Activists Thwart Attempts To Exploit Refugees In Hungary
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A glass of milk, a pair of new shoes, a couple of good words. A small group of volunteers are trying to make the situation of refugees stranded in Szeged’s train station more tolerable. Hungarian immigration authorities routinely transport registered border jumpers to the station right after the departure of the last Budapest-bound train. They were supposed to catch a train to their open refugee ...
“Europe & Hungary Are Experiencing A Refugee Crisis”
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
There is a very real refugee crisis unfolding in Hungary, and nobody knows how long it will last. The government provides funding for everything except essentials: billions of forints squandered on billboard campaigns and a 175-kilometre border fence, while the migrant servicing system is overwhelmed. The answer has yet to be found on a European level, as well.
Hungary’s Impoverished Roma Fear For Their Children’s Future
- 3 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Betti tried to continue her studies but left because she was the only Gypsy at the school. Attila was completely dissuaded from studying. A “B” grade is a bad grade for Tünde, and Joseph doesn’t want to be a public works employee like his father.
Video: Investigation Started Into Manner Of Food Distribution
- 11 Sep 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Responding to the release of a video showing police in the Röszke camp throwing bags of food and bottled water to migrants, a police spokesperson said an investigation had been launched. The video had been recorded at the southern border camp by the wife of an Austrian 'green' politician who had been distributing humanitarian aid at the camp.
Eleni Kounalakis: Hungary’s Xenophobic Response
- 8 Sep 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Op-ed piece written by former US ambassador to Hungary Eleni Kounalakis published by the New York Times on September 6th, 2015.
The scene at Budapest’s Keleti train station is returning to normal. Trains are running again, and most of the thousands of desperate people stranded there last week are on their way to other, more hospitable countries in Europe. Hungary, a country rarely in the ...
The scene at Budapest’s Keleti train station is returning to normal. Trains are running again, and most of the thousands of desperate people stranded there last week are on their way to other, more hospitable countries in Europe. Hungary, a country rarely in the ...
Xpat Opinion: Humanity Delivers To Budapest
- 8 Sep 2015 5:30 AM
- community & culture
By Liz Frommer: What an incredible difference. Keleti station seemed largely vacant as we first entered the initial passageway. Further progressing into the vast area, tents were here and there, and people still lying on the ground. But something was distinctly different. Aside from the lack of bodies you had to sidestep through, there was a distinct feeling of elation. The intense, heaviness we ...
Dispatches: Stranded In Budapest’s Train Station
- 4 Sep 2015 12:00 PM
- current affairs
By Lydia Gall: “Why are they lying to us? Why did police tell me that the train will go to Germany when it will really go to [a] camp?” asked Mohammed, 34, from Syria, when I told him that the train he was about to board this morning was not heading to Austria and Germany but to a processing center outside Budapest.
Jobbik, Socialists Each Make Proposals For Hungarian Border Crisis Management
- 27 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The radical nationalist Jobbik party has proposed amending the constitution so that the armed forces can be mobilised without any legal uncertainties to protect Hungary’s border. The Socialists, on the other hand, called for setting up more reception centres and speeding up asylum procedures on site. “Hungary should make it clear that it does not allow illegal migrants to cross its territory and ...
Budapest Creates Areas For Migrants In Transit
- 6 Aug 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The city of Budapest will set up designated transit areas in the capital where migrants passing through the city can take advantage of basic hygiene and medical services, the municipal council’s chief law enforcement officer announced. After talks with Budapest Mayor István Tarlós it was agreed that areas would be cordoned off near Keleti, Nyugati and Déli train stations where basic services can ...
Civil Activists Thwart Attempts To Exploit Refugees In Hungary
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
A glass of milk, a pair of new shoes, a couple of good words. A small group of volunteers are trying to make the situation of refugees stranded in Szeged’s train station more tolerable. Hungarian immigration authorities routinely transport registered border jumpers to the station right after the departure of the last Budapest-bound train. They were supposed to catch a train to their open refugee ...
“Europe & Hungary Are Experiencing A Refugee Crisis”
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
There is a very real refugee crisis unfolding in Hungary, and nobody knows how long it will last. The government provides funding for everything except essentials: billions of forints squandered on billboard campaigns and a 175-kilometre border fence, while the migrant servicing system is overwhelmed. The answer has yet to be found on a European level, as well.
Hungary’s Impoverished Roma Fear For Their Children’s Future
- 3 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- community & culture
Betti tried to continue her studies but left because she was the only Gypsy at the school. Attila was completely dissuaded from studying. A “B” grade is a bad grade for Tünde, and Joseph doesn’t want to be a public works employee like his father.


















