It is not possible to conclude that Germany will not take more migrants, but Slovenia has to close its borders, if the neighboring Austria does it as well, Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec said at the meeting of the Ljubljana…
Budapest, October 16 (MTI) – A total of 100 million euros will be available for transport infrastructure developments across the Hungary-Austria border in the next seven years, the foreign ministry state secretary for economic diplomacy said on Friday. Levente Magyar…
Budapest, October 14 (MTI) – Zsolt Hernádi, chairman-chief executive of Hungarian oil and gas company MOL, held talks with Rainer Seele, head of Austrian peer OMV, in Vienna on Wednesday, market players told MTI. MOL confirmed Hernadi’s visit to MTI,…
If no international solution is reached in the refugee crisis, Austria will have two options: “Either the current period goes further or there will be a hard action on the border, which also means the use of force” – Austrian…
Vienna, September 29 (MTI) – The upgrade plans for the Paks nuclear plant comply with Hungarian, European Union and international standards, and feature a number of safety systems, Attila Aszodi, government commissioner for the project, told the Tuesday edition of…
The MTI said, the UN officials have warned that by the end of the year the number of refugees coming to Europe may reach 10 million. They highlighted the fact that the 8 thousand asylum seekers coming to Europe every…
According to origo.hu, several Viennese passers wanted to take a picture with Prime Minister Viktor Orban who discussed with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann about the refugee situation. A short video was also published about Friday’s Vienna visit on the Facebook…
Budapest, September 25 (MTI) – The Hungarian prime minister’s visit to Vienna for talks with Austrian leaders indicates that there had been no de facto coordination between the two countries during the migrant crisis at all, the opposition Socialists said…
Vienna, September 25 (MTI) – Austria has “renounced” its friendship with Hungary “in the hardest of times” but the Hungarian government is willing to overlook this, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Vienna on Friday. Orban spoke at a press…
A train carrying thousands of migrants arrived in Hegyeshalom, on Hungary’s border with Austria, on Tuesday morning. The train left Barcs, in southwest Hungary, late on Monday, public news channel M1 reported from the site. The train had 16 carriages…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungarian charities are continuously helping migrants on the Croatian and Austrian borders, providing them with food, drinks, clothing, blankets and bandages. Boaz Kis of the Ecumenical Charity said the charity on Friday night set up a large…
Vienna, September 16 (MTI) – Mandatory quotas to distribute refugees would be against fundamental interests of all European Union members, however, if the EU passes that proposal into law, Hungary must accept it, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an…
Budapest, September 14 (MTI) – Since the beginning of this year police have picked up 191,702 illegal migrants and caught 1117 people smugglers, while the immigration office has registered 170,578 migrants, according to official briefings on Monday. Laszlo Balazs, border…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungary’s foreign ministry has summoned the Austrian ambassador over remarks made by Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann on Hungary in an interview published in the German weekly Der Spiegel on Saturday. The foreign ministry rejects Faymann’s remarks and…
Just few days ago opened the new registration point in Kormend, in western Hungary, but the migrants left the safe place for Austria on foot after just a few hours rest. They are likely heading to the border crossing of…
Budapest, September 11 (MTI) – The first migrants to arrive at a newly opened registration point in Kormend, in western Hungary, left for Austria on foot after just a few hours, the town’s mayor said on Friday. Istvan Bebes of…
Budapest, September 11 (MTI) – A four-kilometre tailback developed on the M1 motorway at the border crossing to Austria as a result of the exodus of migrants on Friday morning, police said on its website. Police advised drivers to take…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – A group of some 150-200 immigrants have left the railway station of Hegyeshalom at Hungary’s western border to cross to Austria on foot. Laszlo Szoke, the local mayor, told MTI that the immigrants were probably…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – Immigrants at Budapest’s Keleti station are allowed to board trains to Austria or Germany in limited numbers, public television M1 reported on Wednesday. Passengers with valid documents have precedence, while migrants are allowed to take…
Budapest, September 6 (MTI) – Hungary’s national police on Sunday warned against helping refugees get to Austria following an initiative by Austrian volunteers to organise lifts for refugees from Hungary to Austria in cars and vans. Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs, a spokeswoman…