Hungary says it has finished building a second fence on the border with Serbia to keep migrants out. The double layer barrier stretches for 155 kilometres and comes equipped with alarms and thermal imaging cameras. Fences went up along the southern borders with Serbia and Croatia in 2015 after an estimated 400,000 migrants and refugees, …
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The EU has launched a legal case against Hungary, the Czech Republic and Poland over their tough stance on taking in asylum seekers. The Hungarian and Polish governments have long refused to take in migrants under a 2015 relocation plan, which was agreed by qualified majority. The Czechs have taken in twelve. “It is binding …
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will ask the European Union to pay €400 million to help Hungary pay for its border protection expenses, including a newly built fence on its border with Serbia, chief of staff János Lázár said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference with government spokesman Zoltán Kovács, Lázár said the EU should …
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In an interview with the German daily Bild, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban defended his country’s refusal of an EU-wide refugee resettlement quota, saying that he believed refugees are “Muslim invaders.” Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a populist leader known for his hardline anti-immigration stance, said that the European Union’s migration policies threaten the “sovereignty …
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Lazar was being filmed during a visit to Vienna when he made controversial comments about immigrants living in the city. “Vienna has become a worse place because of the refugees,” he says in the video, which was published Tuesday on his Facebook page. “Evidently the streets are dirtier, evidently the area is poorer and there’s …
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition won a landslide victory in general elections. Based on 91 percent of the votes counted, the coalition of the Fidesz party and Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) received at least 48 percent of the vote while Hungary’s main opposition Jobbik party received 19 percent and the left-wing Hungarian …
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The Hungarian government has dug out a controversial photo used by Britain’s anti-immigrant UK Independence Party, and reused it to campaign for it own anti-immigration policy. UKIP’s ‘Breaking Point’ poster was released shortly before the Brexit referendum calling on voters to leave the EU over its immigration policy. It drew widespread condemnation from politicians and …
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The Hungarian government has stepped up its anti-immigration measures with plans to introduce a 25% tax on aid groups it says support migration. Viktor Orbán’s administration has been among the most hostile to immigration in Europe. His Fidesz party was re-elected in a landslide victory in April, promising to crack down on non-governmental organisations it says …
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Hungary will quit a U.N. migration pact before its final approval, it said on Wednesday, calling the agreement a “threat to the world”. The Global Compact For Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration was approved on Friday by all 193 U.N. member nations except the United States, which pulled out last year. But Hungary, led by …
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban are underlining their differences on the issue of migration, but say they are willing to keep talking. Merkel told reporters in June 3 at a joint news conference in Berlin that she wants to protect the Europe’s “humanity” when it comes to the way it treats …
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