Budapest (MTI) – Jobbik welcomes that the government has “recognised” the importance of tackling immigration, but this can only be done by more effective border control, the party’s senior official said on Friday. The radical nationalist party’s opinion is that…
Budapest, April 24 (MTI) – Europe must protect its borders, and for this it must enforce serious police and military measures, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his regular Friday morning interview with public radio. Commenting on Thursday’s Brussels special…
Budapest, April 8 (MTI) – At least 31,500 Hungarian citizens left the country for more than a year in 2014, up by nearly 50 percent from 2013 and six and a half times of the figure recorded in 2009, business…
Budapest, April 7 (MTI) – The immigration office has received more than 33,000 applications for asylum in the first three months of 2015, the director general of the office said on Tuesday. An increase in the number of applications began…
Budapest, March 17 (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party wants strengthened police patrols along Hungary’s southern borders to be expanded. Deputy group leader Daniel Karpat told a press conference on Tuesday that a recent drop in migration resulted from…
Budapest, March 16 (MTI) – The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Hungary from Kosovo has dropped since the start of the year, but of those coming from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq has remained high, the director of the national…
Riga, March 6 (MTI) – Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has asked his Swedish counterpart for a “humanitarian solution” to the case of Hungarian Fruzsina Wilhelm, who is facing deportation from Sweden. During a meeting in Riga on Friday, Szijjarto asked…
Budapest (MTI) – The number of people unlawfully crossing Hungary’s border with Serbia has continued to fall compared with the recent past, the spokesperson of the in Csongrad County police headquarters said on Saturday. Police took measures against a total…
Budapest (MTI) – The “so-called refugees” entering Hungary include plenty of criminals and the refugee shelters are full of “unidentifiable elements”, radical nationalist Jobbik lawmaker Daniel Karpat said on Friday. Addressing the parliamentary debate on economic migration, he stressed the…
Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – The government mixes up terrorism with immigration “without any inhibition”, Andras Schiffer, co-leader of the opposition LMP, said on Friday. Addressing the parliamentary debate on economic migration, he said that the figures cited by the…
Budapest, February 20 (MTI) – Hungary’s authorities cannot handle illegal immigration under effective regulations which mostly exclude the detention of illegal entrants, Lajos Kosa, managing deputy leader of ruling Fidesz, told a parliamentary debate on the subject on Friday. At…
Budapest, February 13 (MTI) – Whoever crosses the border illegally, whatever reason they may give, must be taken into custody immediately, the prime minister said in an interview to public radio on Friday. Viktor Orban said that the Austrians and…
Budapest, February 11 (MTI) – Police numbers have been boosted by 136 along the border in south Hungary to tackle the increase in illegal immigrants since last September, a police official said on Wednesday. Head of the border police department…
Budapest, February 11 (MTI) – Police have launched proceedings in the case of 668 illegal migrants who entered Hungary from Serbia into the southern county of Csongrad, the local police spokesman told MTI on Wednesday. Among them were 630 Kosovars,…
According to mno.hu, the police took action against 1022 illegal immigrants in the southern part of Csongrád County Saturday – the County Police spokesman informed MTI on Sunday. Gergely Varkonyi said the 991 of the captured identified themselves as Kosovars,…
It did not discourage the investors that the price of the Hungarian settlement bond has increased from EUR 250 thousand to 300 thousand, 375 such government bonds have been sold in January, napi.hu says. In its Friday issue, Napi Gazdasag…
Budapest, January 21 (MTI) – Two-thirds of Hungarians want the country’s immigration rules to be tightened, and a majority think that the European Union is incapable of protecting European citizens from a similar attack to the Paris terrorist massacre, according…
Budapest (MTI) – Around 150 demonstrators gathered in central Budapest on Monday to protest against recent remarks about economic migrants made by Hungary’s prime minister. One activist, Margit Barna of the Solidarity for Migrants group, spoke up for a Hungary…
“Jobbik’s opinion, which the party has been voicing for years, is becoming more and more relevant: a “No Vacancy” sign should be put up at Europe’s borders.” stated Dániel Z. Kárpát, the deputy leader of Jobbik’s parliamentary group in his…
Budapest, January 14 (MTI) – The number of applications for asylum in Hungary jumped dramatically in 2014 compared with previous years, the director-general of the immigration office said on Wednesday. Whereas there were 2,157 applications submitted in 2012, their number…