Budapest, September 6 (MTI) – Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann has once again taken his rage over Austria’s inability to manage the migrant crisis out on Hungary and its prime minister, a senior Hungarian foreign ministry official said late on Saturday.…
Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – The authorities are in control of the situation and everyone is safe in Hungary, state secretary of the interior ministry, Karoly Kontrat, told a press conference held by police late on Saturday, following a meeting…
Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – An 11km tailback has emerged on the Budapest-Vienna motorway at the border crossing of Hegyeshalom on Saturday morning, an MTI correspondent reported from the site. Waiting vehicles were turned back and rerouted towards the border…
Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – About 4,500 illegal migrants were taken to the Austrian border from Budapest and elsewhere last night, state secretary of the interior Karoly Kontrat told a press conference. The government’s operative staff, which is in session,…
Vienna (MTI) – Hungary should accept the European Union’s quota plan for migrants and joint defence of the Schengen borders, Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said after meeting Hungarian Ambassador Janos Perenyi on Friday. The ambassador was summoned to the chancellery…
Budapest, September 2 (MTI) – Hungary is the only Schengen country affected by migration which is sticking to the letter of the law, the deputy head of parliament’s national security committee said on Wednesday. Fidesz lawmaker Szilard Nemeth told public…
Budapest, September 1 (MTI) – Hungary firmly rejects any accusation that suggests that its actions concerning the issue of migrants are wanting, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday. Referring to criticism by Austrian officials regarding Hungary’s decision to allow…
Budapest, September 1 (MTI) – Hungary has summoned the Austrian ambassador over recent remarks made by Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann on Hungary’s handling of the migration crisis. It is disappointing to hear the leader of a neighbouring country make the…
Budapest, August 31 (MTI) – Tighter checks by Austrian authorities has caused 20-kilometre long traffic queues on motorway M1 towards Austria, a spokesman for the Hungarian Public Roads agency said on Monday morning. Austrian authorities started stricter checks on Sunday…
Budapest, August 28 (MTI) – Hungarian police have arrested three Bulgarians and an Afghan national in connection with the deaths of 71 migrants found in a truck on Austria’s A4 motorway, the spokeswoman of the National Police Headquarters said on…
Budapest, August 27 (MTI) – Government office chief Janos Lazar has confirmed that the truck found abandoned on an Austrian motorway with dead migrants inside had Hungarian number plates. Austria’s police force has contacted its Hungarian counterpart and the two…
Budapest, August 25 (MTI) – This year’s Bridging Europe Festival in Budapest will put the culture and especially the music of Austria in the centre of attention. The festival, which is organized by the Palace of Arts (Mupa) and the…
Budapest, August 18 (MTI) – Austria expelled and returned to Hungary seven times more illegal migrants in the first seven months of this year than in the corresponding period of last year, the national police headquarters said on Tuesday. The…
Budapest, August 17 (MTI) – A regional court has ordered the pre-trial detention of a Serbian national suspected of attempting to smuggle 29 illegal migrants into Austria, Zsolt Kopasz, Csongrad county’s chief prosecutor said. Police said the man had agreed…
Budapest, August 13 (MTI) – Six more Hungarian police officers are to join patrols on trains headed to western Europe, the national police force (ORFK) said on Thursday. Around 2,400 people who crossed the border illegally have been caught since…
According to vs.hu, the two Hungarian people smugglers received prison sentence, who transported 26 refugees to Austria in inhumane conditions at the beginning of June. The prime accused, a 46 year-old man from Budapest was sentenced to two years, of…
Budapest, June 30 (MTI) – The interior ministers of Serbia, Austria and Hungary signed a letter of agreement on Tuesday to start close cooperation in handling the extraordinary pressure from migration affecting all three countries. Austria’s Johanna Mikl-Leitner told a…
Budapest, June 23 (MTI) – For technical reasons the immigration office has suspended for an indefinite period the European agreement on asylum, the so-called Dublin regulation on transfers, the interior ministry told MTI on Tuesday. A statement by the interior…
Budapest, June 10 (MTI) – Austrians spent 41 billion forints (EUR 131m) in Hungary in the first quarter of this year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a rundown of tourism figures released on Wednesday. Slovaks spent 29 billion,…
The Treaty of Trianon was the peace agreement on June 4th 1920 which formally ended World War I. between most of the Allies and the Kingdom of Hungary. As a result, Hungary lost the 2/3 of its territories and people.…