Schengen

21/09/2016

Polish police officers and border guards start their duty at Serbian border

On Tuesday, a contingent of 49 Polish police officers and border guards started their duty at the Serbian border section in Csongrád county. As part of […]
20/09/2016

Hungary keeps many asylum seekers stranded on border – HRW report

  Budapest, September 20 (MTI) – Hungary is keeping many of the most vulnerable asylum seekers stranded on its border in poor conditions while they wait […]
19/09/2016

PM advisor welcomes EU help for Bulgaria

Budapest, September 18 (MTI) – The European Union’s decision to provide emergency aid to Bulgaria, with a view to helping it protect its borders against the […]
16/09/2016

EU summit – Orbán: EU summit failure in terms of migration policy

Bratislava, September 16 (MTI) – Friday’s informal EU summit in Pozsony (Bratislava) has been a failure in the sense that participants could not change “Brussels’ immigration […]
16/09/2016

Orbán’s advisor: Hungary is helping genuine refugees

  On Friday at a press conference held in front of the Capital’s Keleti railway station, György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister said […]
15/09/2016

Protecting EU external border becomes “priority” for Germany too?

Berlin, September 14 (MTI) – Protecting the European Union’s external border has become a “number one priority” also for Germany in resolving the migrant crisis, a […]
14/09/2016

Orbán visits Bulgaria-Turkey border region – Photo gallery – UPDATE

Sofia, September 14 (MTI) – Bulgaria’s successfully protecting its borders is a shared interest “of us all”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday, after […]
11/09/2016

EU aims to send up to 120,000 migrants to Hungary?

Budapest (MTI) – The European Union may resettle 100,000 to 120,000 migrants in Hungary under its mandatory quota plan, János Lázár suggested in an interview with […]
07/09/2016

Answer to Austria: Hungary will only take back migrants who entered the EU here

Budapest, September 7 (MTI) – Hungary will only take back migrants who entered the European Union in this country, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. Péter […]
07/09/2016

Orbán’s advisor: Hungary must prepare for renewed migration wave

Budapest (MTI) – Hungary must prepare for the possibility that a new wave of migrants could soon make their way towards the country, the prime minister’s […]
06/09/2016

Further fences are being built at the Southern border of Hungary – PHOTOS

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán reported that the temporary technical closing of the border gets further elements and a 60 metres wide part near the border at […]
06/09/2016

Czech police arrive to help patrol Hungary-Serbia border

Budapest, September 5 (MTI) – A contingent of 50 Czech police officers arrived in Hungary on Monday to help patrol Hungary’s border with Serbia. The Czech […]
05/09/2016

Orbán met his Serbian counterpart Vucic in Belgrade – UPDATE

Belgrade, September 5 (MTI) – Challenges stemming from a wave of migration similar to those seen last year along the so-called Balkan route could well arise […]
02/09/2016

This is how immigrants get across the fence

According to faktor.hu, immigrants are getting smuggled at the Serbian-Hungarian border in a much more organised way than before, as human traffickers now know where the […]
01/09/2016

Recruitment of border patrol personnel to start on Thursday

On Wednesday György Bakondi, Chief Security Advisor to the Prime Minister, told public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió that recruitment of the three thousand police officers who will […]
31/08/2016

Slovak unit helping patrol Hungary-Serbia border completes mission

  Budapest, August 31 (MTI) – A Slovak police unit dispatched to help their Hungarian colleagues patrol the Hungarian-Serbian border completed its month-long mission on Wednesday. […]
31/08/2016

Hungarian government: Migration and terrorism go hand in hand

At a press conference, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior Károly Kontrát has said that the experience of recent months and years has shown […]
31/08/2016

Merkel’s ‘Wir schaffen das’ slogan empty phrase, says analyst

Budapest, August 30 (MTI) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s famous catchphrase “Wir schaffen das” (“We can do this”), coined last summer during the height of Europe’s […]
31/08/2016

Nationaly security committee: Turkey situation could worsen migrant crisis

Budapest, August 30 (MTI) – The current situation in Turkey could worsen Europe’s migration crisis, the head and deputy head of parliament’s national security committee said […]
26/08/2016

Visegrad Four summit in Warsaw

Warsaw, August 26 (MTI) –  Britain’s exit from the European Union is not the cause but rather a consequence of the state of things in Europe […]