Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Some 1,000 migrants broke through the line formed by police at the Roszke reception centre near the Serbian border on Monday afternoon and left the area, MTI’s correspondent reported from the site. No tear gas…
Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Three men have been taken into custody in Szeged, southeast Hungary, in connection with the theft of 2,000 euros from four Syrian migrants near the M5 motorway, local police said. Spokeswoman Csilla Gyugyi said the…
Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Hungary’s Nobel laureate author Imre Kertesz (85) has written about Europe’s liberalism as childish and suicidal in his latest book entitled The Last Refuge, Monday’s daily Magyar Idok said, citing a recent report by Swedish…
We collected which is the Democratic Coalition, the Egyutt and the Dialogue for Hungary opposition parties opinion about immigration. Democratic Coalition (DK) Leftist opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said Prime Minister Viktor Orban was responsible for the rising number of migrants arriving in Europe.…
Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – A group of migrants tried to leave a registration area near Roszke border station in the south on Monday morning, but were contained by police, public news channel M1 reported. A group of 30-40 men,…
Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Police apprehended a total of 5,386 border violators over the weekend, the communications service of the national police headquarters said on Monday. A report published on the police’s website shows that 2,181 persons were apprehended…
Luxembourg, September 6 (MTI) – To handle the current crisis successfully, the causes of migration should be eliminated, Zsolt Nemeth, head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said in Luxembourg. Attending a two-day session of foreign affairs and defence committee leaders…
Belgrade, September 6 (MTI) – Hungarian railway company MAV on Sunday denied to receive two trains carrying migrants from Serbia, Serbia’s state-owned railway company said. Serbian Railways said in a statement that the train that departed from Belgrade late on…
Budapest, September 6 (MTI) – Road and rail traffic is now running uninterrupted as migrants continue to board trains heading westward, Tibor Lakatos, a senior of the National Police Headquarters, told a press conference on Sunday. Police are in constant…
Budapest, September 6 (MTI) – The UNHCR is constantly providing help for migrants arriving in Hungary, Erno Simon, spokesman for the refugee agency’s Hungarian service centre, said in Roszke near the Serbian border on Sunday. Simon said UNHCR workers are…
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…
Budapest, September 6 (MTI) – Hungary observes all rules and regulations of the European Union upon handling the current, “astoundingly massive” wave of migrants, and makes every possible effort to protect the Schengen border, Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and…
Budapest (MTI) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held a phone conversation about the migration crisis, Germany’s deputy government spokesman, Georg Streiter, said in Berlin late on Saturday. The government spokesman said the German chancellor…
Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – Radical nationalist Jobbik party leader Gabor Vona said we must make it clear that Hungary belongs to Hungarians. “We respect them but we don’t want them here,” he said. Speaking at the opposition party’s demonstration…
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) – Migrants trying to stop a scheduled long-distance bus damaged the vehicle in Roszke, on the Hungary-Serbia border, on Saturday afternoon. Citing a witness who travelled on the bus, MTI’s correspondent said a few men tried…
Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – Volunteers on Saturday helped migrants waiting at Budapest’s Keleti station buy westbound train tickets, MTI’s correspondent at the site reported. The volunteers also put up directions at the end of platforms containing information about destinations…
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,…
Can the soldiers control crowd, will they be able to calmly deal with the tense situation? When do they can use live ammunition and when rubber bullets only? The Hungarian Army is preparing for one of its largest deployment, and…