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Police take action against over 250,000 illegal migrants this year
The figures have almost doubled since last year, from 109,117 cases registered between Jan. 1 and Nov. 20 last year.
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State Secretary: Hungary has spent HUF 650 billion on protecting border
Bence Rétvári has revealed that the European Union has covered just 2% of the costs to protect Hungary's Southern border.
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FM: 215,000 illegal migrants stopped so far this year
Proceedings have been launched against 1,500 people smugglers this year alone.
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Over 1,500 apply to serve in police’s border patrol unit
Training courses are held in Bács-Kiskun, Békés, Csongrád-Csanád and Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg counties in southern and eastern Hungary.
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Hungarian government to prioritize security, economic growth and family support in 2020
One of the government’s top priorities this year will be to protect the Hungarian economy and maintain its growth trajectory. The government will launch a new economic protection action plan accordingly.
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Chief Security Advisor: Migration pressure has increased at Hungary’s southern border
György Bakondi said the Balkan route had witnessed in December the most intense migration activity since the start of the migrant crisis.
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Ahmed H. bound for Cyprus. Does this mark the end to this unfortunate saga?
Ahmed H., the convicted leader of a violent mob of immigrants that tried to storm the Hungarian-Serbian border in 2015, can now return to Cyprus. Hopefully, with this latest, the story finally comes to a close, but let’s not forget what really happened here and what this case means.
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Border agencies detained more than 700 illegal migrants at the Hungarian-Serbian border in January
“Tight border control is where the stability of Hungary’s domestic security starts,” György Bakondi said
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FM: The government will not retreat and it will make every effort to protect Hungary’s security
Minister Szijjártó said the people of Europe will decide who wins the battle at next year’s European parliamentary elections
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Syrian man charged with “acts of terrorism” sentenced to five years in prison
Ahmed H charged with illegal border crossing and complicity in “acts of terrorism”
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Ahmed H has appeal trial set for September 20th
Ahmed H was sentenced in the Szeged Court of Justice in March to seven years in prison and expelled from Hungary for 10 years
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Hey, POLITICO Europe, you left out some important details – like really important details – about the Ahmed H. incident
When POLITICO Europe published that story this morning on the retrial of a man facing charges in Hungary after an attack on Hungarian border guards, the reporter and editors left a lot out of the story.
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Hungary’s border fence guarantees the country’s security and stands as a symbol of the fight against illegal migration, says state secretary
Without the border fence, Hungary would have remained on the main route of migration and hundreds of thousands of illegal migrants would be arriving even today, making the country vulnerable to the consequences of migration, Csaba Dömötör said