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Hungarian Voters Get Wage Increases By Blocking Arab Migration

With no migration, and “with unemployment at a record low … [Hungarians’] average monthly salaries after taxes rose 8.4 percent in January-May compared with last year,” according to Bloomberg’s coverage of the small country, which is wedged between Serbia and Austria in southeastern Europe.

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Bulgaria Seeks Allies To Defend Against Turkish Invasion of Europe

One of Bulgaria’s top businessmen has called for Balkan countries to form a union to defend against a potential Turkish invasion of Europe. Vasil Vasilev said that the supposedly “tolerant” and “solidarity”-loving European Union (EU) could not be relied on to protect the Balkans if “hundreds of thousands of so-called refugees” from Turkey descend on them.

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1,200-Plus Migrants Stuck At Serbia-Hungary Border

Over 1,200 migrants have massed on the Serbian-Hungarian border as many fear the area could turn into another Idomeni-style migrant camp. The Balkan route continues to see more migrants crossing into Europe but now due to the stricter regulations by the Hungarian

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Merkel: If We Close The Border, ‘Europe Is Destroyed’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has made an impassioned plea for keeping Europe’s internal Schengen—zone borders open, despite the migrant crisis. The warning of destruction, which has followed several others made at times where borders have had to be closed in

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Fighter Jets Intercept British Airways Flight Over Hungary

BUDAPEST, Hungary, May 1 (UPI) — A British Airways flight was intercepted by fighter jets over Hungary Saturday after it failed to contact air traffic controllers when it entered the country’s air space. The Boeing 777 was reportedly escorted by

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Hungary’s Orban: ‘Islamisation’ Banned By Constitution

Hungary’s constitution bans “Islamization” because the document aims to protect Hungarian language and culture, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Monday. Orban also said the constitution forces the government to oppose any kind of mass migration that would endanger those principles.

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