According to the 2013 data of UN, the highest proportion of migrants is in Andorra, while the lowest is in Bosnia. The images of the international organization reveal that the most populous minority group is Algerian in France and Indians…
Budapest, July 16 (MTI) – The government will move to change Hungary’s criminal code to make illegal migration a criminal offense rather than a misdemeanor, government office chief Janos Lazar said. The motion will be put to parliament in the…
Budapest, July 16 (MTI) – The Hungarian army has “all the skills needed” to build a fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia to stem the massive inflow of illegal migrants, Defence Minister Csaba Hende said on Thursday. Speaking at a…
Budapest, July 15 (MTI) – It is reported that a suspected illegal migrant was killed on Wednesday morning in a road accident on the M5 motorway near Hungary’s border with Serbia. Police spokesman for Csongrad County told MTI that a…
Budapest, July 14 (MTI) – A demonstration was held against the border fence being erected on Hungary’s border with Serbia and tightened migrant laws, the organising migrants rights group MigSzol said. Protesters gathered in front of the Basilica in central…
Budapest, July 14 (MTI) – Immigration will have “tremendous ramifications” for Europe unless a common solution to the problem is identified, foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday. Speaking at a graduation ceremony at Budapest’s Corvinus University (BCU), Szijjarto insisted…
Budapest, July 14 (MTI) – The Budapest service centre of the UN Refugee Agency will expand both in terms of area and the size of its staff, a foreign ministry state secretary said in Budapest on Tuesday. Istvan Mikola told…
Budapest, July 13 (MTI) – A delegation by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees visited south Hungary’s Csongrad county, local police told MTI on Monday. During their visit on July 8, members of the delegation distributed aid and reviewed…
Budapest, July 13 (MTI) – Police stopped a total of 2,858 illegal border crossers in Hungary this past weekend, the national police (ORFK) told MTI on Monday. The ORFK reported on its website that it had launched proceedings against two…
Budapest, July 13 (MTI) – The Hungarian army on Monday started building the border fence to stem the massive flow of illegal migrants across Hungary’s border with Serbia. The army started preparatory work on a 150-metre section – felling, cutting…
Budapest (MTI) – The Hungarian Red Cross has said it is providing help to migrants at the Roszke crossing on the Serbian border. The organisation’s deputy chief, Gabor Nagy, told public television M1 that the help is mainly in the…
Budapest (MTI) – The Hungarian immigration office has increased the number of employees processing asylum applications since last year but is facing huge pressure to handle a dramatic increase in applications over the past few months, the daily Magyar Nemzet…
Budapest, July 10 (MTI) – Hundreds of supporters of the Sixty-Four Counties Youth Movement held a protest in front of Budapest’s Keleti railway station against “raging hordes of migrants” on Friday. Gyorgy Gyula Zagyva, the co-leader of the organisation, said…
Budapest, July 10 (MTI) – The majority of migrants coming to Hungary are not driven by economic reasons but are fleeing countries stricken by war or ruled by dictatorship, the co-head of the Hungarian Helsinki Committee human rights organisation said…
Budapest, July 9 (MTI) – The government expects abuses of the asylum system to drop significantly after a related law was passed earlier this week, government office chief Janos Lazar said. The law will allow for the important task of…
Newspaper Magyar Nemzet writes that from the beginning of the sales of the establishment bonds in December 2013, 6800 foreigners applied for it until May 31, and 6663 of them got the temporary residence permit. According to the package of…
According to hvg.hu, the poster, which has been on public display in the Austrian capital, has been presented on the Facebook site of the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party (a joke party). In a free translation, it means: “Thank you Austria…
Budapest, July 7 (MTI) – There are currently 146,000 foreign nationals living in Hungary, over 100,000 of whom are European, daily Napi Gazdasag said on Tuesday. The peak of 206,000 foreign nationals was registered in 2011. Many have since obtained…
Budapest, July 6 (MTI) – Lawmakers on Monday passed amendments to several laws relating to migration and asylum. The bill, submitted by Interior Minister Sandor Pinter last week, was adopted with 151 votes in favour and 42 against. The new…
Budapest, July 6 (MTI) – Lawmakers discussed proposed measures on migration in a debate ahead of a vote on a related law amendment in parliament on Monday. Antal Rogan, head of the parliamentary group of the ruling Fidesz party, said…