Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – Using the military in the “current migration emergency” is necessary and in line with the constitution, Lajos Kosa, an MP for ruling Fidesz, said after a session of parliament’s defence committee on Wednesday. Kosa said…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – Europe’s leaders should send a clear message to third countries that the continent cannot receive immigrants by the millions, the deputy group leader of ruling Fidesz told a press conference on Wednesday. Jobbik’s deputy group leader,…
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 9 (MTI) – A group of 200-250 migrants left the registration point near Roszke, near the Serbian border, on Wednesday morning, MTI’s correspondent reported. The group, composed mostly of young men, pushed past the lines formed by police…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – The negative economic impact of the current migration crisis is likely to be felt by a significant number of Hungarian businesses, the head of the Hungarian Chamber of Trade and Industry (MKIK) said on Wednesday.…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – Altogether 2,529 migrants entered Hungary on Tuesday through the southern border illegally, 455 children among them, local police told MTI. The migrants, most of them declaring themselves as Syrians, Afghans and Pakistanis, were picked up…
Budapest, September 9 (MTI) – Police used tear gas against a group of migrants that refused to go to a collection point after entering Hungary, and two people were detained near Roszke in southern Hungary late on Tuesday, a local…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – Efforts to increase “Hungarians’ sense of security” represent a key issue, Istvan Simicsko, designated to replace Csaba Hende as defence minister, said in parliament on Tuesday. Related article: INCOMING DEFENCE MINISTER SIMICSKO: SPEEDING UP BORDER…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – Migrants arriving in Hungary seeking international protection should be offered simpler registration procedures and sufficient services, UN Refugee Agency UNHCR Director of the Bureau for Europe, Vincent Cochetel said in Budapest. Cochetel told a press…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – Migrants who earlier broke out of a registration point near Roszke 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…
Ruptly TV – Scuffles broke out between Hungarian police officers and refugees who were trying to board a bus to take them from a temporary camp to a nearby reception centre in Roszke, Tuesday. One man was injured when police officers pushed…
Brussels, September 8 (MTI) – The European Commission has decided to hand over 4 million euros to Hungary in fast aid towards easing the refugee crisis. The funds are aimed at improving immigrant reception centres or building new ones, purchasing…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – The government should make clear its response to the migration crisis, which threatens to descend into “massive chaos”, the radical nationalist Jobbik party said on Tuesday. Tens of thousands of migrants with failed asylum applications…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – Members of several Hungarian and international aid organisations are distributing aid at a reception centre for migrants at Roszke near the Serbian border, MTI’s correspondent reported from the site. Several hundred migrants on Tuesday morning…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – So far this year police have picked up 169,337 illegal migrants and caught 955 people smugglers, while the immigration office has registered 157 746 migrants, according to official briefings on Tuesday. The immigration office is…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – Police on Monday picked up 2,471 migrants, 660 children among them, who illegally crossed Hungary’s southern border, a police spokesman for Csongrad County said. The authorities have started immigration proceedings against them. Across the country,…
Budapest, September 8 (MTI) – The hundreds of migrants who on Monday afternoon broke out of the reception centre near the border station of Roszke were all transported back to the camp by buses late in the evening, MTI’s correspondent…
According to globoport.hu, United Nations celebrates the 70th anniversary of its foundation at the 2015 NGO conference and it brings together the civil society organizations of the nations. Dorottya Patay, Hungarian Africa Society’s civil and humanitarian affairs director also participated…
Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – The Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (MKPK) said on Monday that it is “happy” to follow Pope Francis’ call for members of the Catholic faith worldwide to shelter and aid refugees. In a letter signed by…