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The Visegrád Group and Austria Interior Ministers met in Budapest – strengthening of the regional cooperation on migration

The Editorial Board June 28, 2018

Article originally published on The Hungary Journal. Hungary - Interior ministers of the four Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – and their Austrian counterpart met for talks in Budapest on Tuesday. After the talks, Hungary’s Sandor Pinter called…

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Visegrád – Austria Summit: Confirmed Entente

The Editorial Board June 22, 2018

The Visegrád Group and Austria met in Budapest for a summit on immigration therefore bypassing and declaring their boycott of the planned "mini-summit" on the subject. Hungary - On Thursday, 21 June, Budapest hosted a summit of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia,…

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New Balkan Route: Austria gets ready to close its border

The Editorial Board June 11, 2018

Austria - A few weeks after the opening of a new “Balkan route” through Albania, Montenegro, Bosnia and Croatia, the Austrian minister of the Interior, Herbert Kickl (FPÖ), has announced the organisation of a live exercise of closing the Austrian-Slovenian border at…

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General elections in Slovenia: has the time come for illiberalism in Ljubljana?

Thibaud Gibelin June 2, 2018

By Thibaud Cassel. Slovenia - Following the resignation of the Prime Minister Miro Cerar on March 14, general elections will take place in Slovenia this Sunday, June 3. This is the occasion to inquire into the possible evolutions of this country bordering…

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“Stop Soros”: hard blow for pro migrants NGOs in Hungary

The Editorial Board June 2, 2018

Hungary – On May 29, the Hungarian government presented its earlier already announced bill “Stop Soros” aiming to prevent immigrationist NGOs from pursuing their anti-national activities with complete impunity. Following the results of the elections held in April, Viktor Orbán has…

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Will Montenegro build a fence at the Albanian border? Hungary is ready to help

The Editorial Board May 22, 2018

Montenegro - Migratory crisis: Montenegro does not exclude the possibility of building a fence at its border with Albania; Hungary proposes to help. As mentioned a few days ago, some groups of migrants have been spotted in Croatia while coming from…

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Reform of the asylum procedure: Austria gets rid of the NGOs

The Editorial Board May 20, 2018

Austria - As early as 2020, the asylum seekers will not be advised any more by NGOs but by public servants in order to shorten the procedures and to send back home faster the ones whose claims were rejected. As the « …

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Migrants and Slovenian elections: the future of the Balkans is at stake

The Editorial Board May 17, 2018

Slovenia - The migrants are squatting in Sarajevo and Slovenia fears up to 60.000 illegals to transit through Bosnia: the Slovenian elections will weigh heavily on the outcome of this regional issue. At the very moment we mentioned the possibility of…

Society

Migrants spotted in Bosnia: a new migratory route?

The Editorial Board May 14, 2018

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Since the beginning of the migratory crisis in the Western Balkans in 2014 (when in the autumn of 2014 a first massive wave of migrants coming from Kosovo arrived at the Serbian-Hungarian border), the routes used by the…

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George Soros’ foundation is leaving Budapest

The Editorial Board April 19, 2018

Hungary - According to the leading Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which was created and is led by George Soros, said the OSF would leave Budapest to move to Berlin. The information has been confirmed…

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Central Europe accentuates its defense cooperation and some countries are rearming

La Rédaction April 5, 2018

Hungary, Budapest - The defense ministers of seven Central European countries met in Budapest as part of the Central European Defense Cooperation. The seven countries are preparing for a new influx of migrants that they intend to manage together, and some…

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Italy looks closely at the Hungarian elections

The Editorial Board March 28, 2018

By Massimiliano Ferrari, columnist at Il Populista. Hungary - The Hungarian elections will be followed with great interest also in Italy and especially in Lombardy and Veneto, the two economic-cultural locomotives of a country which certainly is a bridge between Europe and…