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Influx of illegal immigrants at the Polish border

Agnieszka Golańska-Bault August 24, 2021

Poland/Belarus – The Polish border services, reinforced by a thousand soldiers, are currently trying to prevent an unprecedented wave of illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Afghanistan from entering Poland through Belarus. The total length of the Polish–Belarusian border is 418…

Politics

Hungarian governement wants to tax pro-migrant NGOs to fund border protection

The Editorial Board January 17, 2018

Hungary - The Hungarian government announced its will to introduce a package of bills aiming to tax NGOs supporting illegal migration and use this money to strengthen border protection. This new step is following a good results of the national consultation on…

Interviews

L. Toroczkai: “If the Four of Visegrád manage to stay strong and united, then there is hope that the European Union will survive”

Ferenc Almássy November 9, 2017

Hungary, Ásotthalom - László Toroczkai, Hungarian mayor of the Ásotthalom municipality on the border with Serbia and Vice President of Jobbik: "If the Four of Visegrád manage to stay strong and united, then there is hope that the European Union will survive"…

Politics

Hungary: national consultation on the “Soros plan”

The Editorial Board October 5, 2017

Hungary - The Hungarian Conservative government of Viktor Orbán launches a new national consultation. After having asked the Hungarians to express their views on migrants and interference of Brussels, the Hungarian government is now considering what it calls the "Soros Plan". Referring…

Politics

Hungary: the border fence is two years old

The Editorial Board September 18, 2017

Hungary - On Friday, September 15, the temporary closure of the Hungarian-Serbian border by a monitored barrier was two years old. Following the great migratory wave of summer 2015, the Conservative government of Viktor Orbán decided to erect a barrier along its…

Society

The European Court ruled against Hungary and Slovakia on the migrant quotas case

The Editorial Board September 6, 2017

European Union - The Court of Justice of the European Union rejected the legal challenge by Hungary and Slovakia of mandatory relocation migrants quotas that Brussels wants to impose to all member states. The ultimate judicial authority of the European Union, the Court of…

Politics

Hungary asks EU to pay the half of its fence’s costs

The Editorial Board September 1, 2017

Hungary - On Thursday, August 31, Hungarian government officially asked the European Commission to show some "solidarity" and pay half of the cost Hungary has incurred for border management. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has asked Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission,…

Society

Romanian border-guards shots two smugglers cars

The Editorial Board August 29, 2017

Romania, Moraviţa - Near Timișoara, on the border with Serbia and not far from the Hungarian border, the Romanian border guards opened fire on the vehicle of a passenger of Serbian citizenship conveying migrants. Romania is increasingly subject to the management of…

Society

The indisputable success of the Hungarian border fence

The Editorial Board May 15, 2017

Hungary - The second fence on the southern border of Hungary is complete. Hungary is now endowed with the most monitored border in Europe, whose effectiveness is indisputable. Along the 155 km of the border with Serbia, the anti-migrant barrier has been…

Politics

Orbán: “EU’s Christian Identity under Threat from Muslim Migrants”

The Editorial Board April 2, 2017

Hungary - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told at the EPP congress in Malta that the European Union should defend itself from a looming "invasion of Muslim migration". Viktor Orbán said migration turned out to to be the Trojan horse of terrorism,…

Politics

The Visegrád Group Will Not Yield to Blackmail, and Hungary Strengthens Anti-Immigration Policy

The Editorial Board March 29, 2017

Poland, Warsaw - The leaders of the Visegrád Group, meeting in Warsaw on Tuesday (March 28th), denounced with one voice the European blackmail and diktat over them regarding migration policy. The four prime ministers strongly opposed the idea of linking the distribution…

Politics

Central Europe Unites to Put an End to Illegal Immigration

The Editorial Board February 9, 2017

Austria, Vienna - Ministers from 15 countries gathered in Vienna on Wednesday, February 8, in order to find a common way to put an end to the illegal immigration in the Balkans and Central Europe. Representatives from Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czechia, Croatia,…