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Contents: Hungary slams closed the door to thousands of new migrants; European Union’s Schengen agreement for borderless travel unravels; Egypt mistakenly kills Mexican tourists, Mexico demands explanation

Hungary effectively sealed its border with Serbia on Tuesday to stem the massive influx of refugees, as EU ministers failed in an emergency meeting to agree on sharing the migrants around the bloc. Budapest’s move came after Austria and Slovakian

As Europe’s migrant crisis reaches a head, Austria, Slovakia and the Netherlands announced their intentions Monday to join Germany and the Czech Republic in reintroducing border controls to stem the tide of migrants crossing into Europe, especially now that Germany

Hungary has sent 3,800 soldiers to hurry completion of a fence along its 175-kilometre border with Serbia, Defence Minister Istvan Simicsko said Friday. The first task is to finish the four-metre-high fence, which presently extends along parts of the border, while the

From the Financial Times: Among Britain’s best-loved sportsmen of the 1970s was a mild-mannered heavyweight boxer named Joe Bugner. Born Jozsef Kreul Bugner in southern Hungary, he fled to Britain as a child with his parents after a Soviet invasion

Borders are being closed and major European Union (EU) treaties are being discarded as tens of thousands of migrants swarm across Europe, overwhelming national police forces in their wake. Nations on the conveyor belt across Europe, from Serbia to Hungary, Austria, on

Hungarian camera woman Petra Laszlo has been fired from her job at television network N1TV for kicking a number of migrants as they stampeded away from police officers. The video, which surfaced this weekend and resulted in her dismissal, showed the videographer

Aid workers are calling the situation on the Greek island of Lesbos a “humanitarian disaster” as authorities try to settle 20,000 migrants, most from Syria, throughout the Greek state. EU officials warn the migrant crisis engulfing the continent could take “years” to resolve.

The prime minister of Hungary accused Berlin of encouraging “millions” of refugees to travel to Europe by allowing them to enter Germany without limits, Sky News reports.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 8) – The pictures are stark but they don’t tell the whole story. They rarely do. As Europe wakes each day to yet another round of migrants stepping ashore in Greece and Italy, it would be easy

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 8) – Europe’s interests as defined by the liberal left technocrats of Brussels are not always necessarily those of a member state like Hungary. That’s why MEP György Schöpflin, a member of the governing Fidesz party, is happy

“Everything which is now taking place before our eyes threatens to have explosive consequences for the whole of Europe. Europe’s response is madness. We must acknowledge that the European Union’s misguided immigration policy is responsible for this situation.” The voice

The decision of Chancellor Angela Merkel to invite into Germany thousands of migrants stuck in Hungary has opened splits in her conservative bloc. Bavarian allies have accused her of sending a “totally wrong signal” to the rest of Europe. The divisions erupted after Angela Merkel and

Munich, the first point of arrival for the thousands of economic migrants travelling by train from Hungary into Western Europe will be put into a state of police emergency during the usually jubilant Oktoberfest celebrations. Joachim Herrmann, the Christian Social

AMSTERDAM, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said the stream of migrants flowing through south-eastern Europe were immigrants, attracted by the prospect of life in Germany, not refugees. “If they want to continue on from Hungary, it’s not

Contents: Migrant workers in Maine being replaced by blueberry-picking machines;As expected, Austria follows Hungary in saying ‘No more migrants’

The Guardian’s editorial from this weekend has claimed that the “bulwark” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is “awful” for trying to control his country’s borders and maintain some level of control over the migrant crisis.  The left-wing British newspaper wrote

With the news that Austria and Germany had opened its borders, thousands of migrants began departing Hungary on foot Sunday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 7) – Hungary is preparing legislation that will enable it to deploy its army and para-military police on the country’s southern border with Serbia. Prime Minister Viktor Orban made the announcement today as he detailed a package

A Hungarian MEP has said that many of the ‘refugees’ who have come to his country are little more than economic migrants and are even wealthier than some of the poorest people in Hungary. György Schöpflin, a member of the

VIENNA/MUNICH, Sept 7 (Reuters) – Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday and move step by step “towards normality”. Austria had suspended its

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 7) – Hungary has had enough. After weeks of turmoil driven by immigrants surging through the country’s frontiers on their way to Germany, borders with Serbia to the south and Austria to the north are being closed in

BUDAPEST, Hungary (Sept. 6) – The human flood tide surging into Europe from its southern Mediterranean shores is only beginning. Hungary’s Prime Minister Victor Orban has warned that ‘uncountable millions’ of migrants from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa are on the way

Footage has emerged of migrants at a Hungarian train station throwing away food and water offered to them by police. The Youtube footage, which is embossed with the badges of the Hungarian police force, shows the migrants rejecting food packages

Contents: After weeks of chaos, Hungary appears to be giving in to the flood of migrants;Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán: Muslim migrants threaten Europe’s Christian identity; Austria agrees to allow migrants to pass through Austria

The first of thousands of migrants reached the Austrian border town of Nickelsdorf last night after the Austrian and German governments agreed to accept them. Around 1,200 people travelled across Hungary by foot and car, while many more remained at

Thousands of exhausted migrants streamed into Austria on Saturday, bussed to the border by a Hungarian government that gave up trying to hold them back as Europe’s asylum system buckled under pressure from the numbers reaching its frontiers. After days

The migrant crisis currently overtaking Europe has experts focused upon one of the most remarkable examples of an effective border fence: the one Israel built along its border with Egypt.

The straight talking Hungarian premier who has worked to secure his border with a fence, said the migration crisis is “Germany’s problem” and cautioned against mass Muslim settlement strikes a lonely figure in Brussels. After two days of relentless opposition

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Sept 4 (Reuters) – Some 300 migrants broke out of a Hungarian border camp on Friday and hundreds of others set off on foot from Budapest as police scrambled to keep control of a migrant crisis that

Hungary’s Prime Minister has told German news outlets that he does not want large numbers of Muslims in his country. The news follows his comments that the hundreds of migrants at Hungarian train stations are “Germany’s problem”. Large numbers continue

Dramatic scenes unfolded in the Hungarian town of Bicske on Thursday when a distraught Syrian refugee pushed his wife and their young child on the rail tracks in protest over Hungarian authorities. Hundreds of Syrian migrants were ordered off the

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of migrants chanted defiant slogans outside Budapest’s main international railway station Wednesday as Hungarian police blocked them for a second day from seeking asylum in Germany and other European Union countries to the west. “What

From Ishaan Tharoor at the Washington Post comes an argument that Europeans resisting the wave of migrants from Middle Eastern hell-holes have got it all wrong. The new arrivals will actually save Europe, by repopulating it with someone other than Europeans.

The Hungarians are responding to a record-breaking wave of “migrants” from the war zones of the post-Obama Middle East by constructing one of those border fences that’s supposed to be impossibly expensive and ineffective.

Thousands of migrants have stormed across Macedonia’s southern border with Greece just days after the Macedonian government closed the border and declared a state of emergency. Police lobbed stun grenades and hit some of the infiltrators with batons, but were