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State Secretary: Fence along Hungary’s border with Serbia has been reinforced and extended
A 10-kilometer section had been added to an earlier fence of 165 kilometers in the Hercegszanto area.
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Hungary sends 35-strong police unit to Serbia to assist in border protection
The Hungarian officers will use their own equipment, which includes off-road vehicles, night vision devices and mobile infra-red cameras during their patrols.
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Bakondi: Nearly 49,000 border violators stopped in Hungary this year
György Bakondi told public radio that migrants and human smugglers had kept Hungary’s borders under significant pressure.
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State Secretary: Action must be taken against people smugglers
People smugglers operated by organized crime rings pose a threat to the safety of the whole of Europe, and firm action must be taken against them.
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Fidesz MEP: EP keeps pushing failed ideas and protracting migration crisis
Balázs Hidvéghi said the European Parliament “keeps pushing the same, impractical solutions as ever and protracting the migration crisis."
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Frontex highlights drop in illegal border crossings through Western Balkans due to strengthened Hungarian borders
In January-March 2023, more than 54,000 people tried to enter the EU illegally, up by 26% from the same period last year, the report said.
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Foreign Minister calls for quicker EU integration of Western Balkans
The foreign minister said that Europe was facing “grave security, economic and energy supply crises” because of the sanctions imposed on Russia in response to the war in Ukraine.
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PM Orbán: Migration pressure on Europe continues to increase
Pressure posed by migration is rising and is slowly becoming “unbearable” for the bloc’s western members as well, the prime minister said.
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State Secretary: EU’s migration policy has failed
30 Hungarian policemen are leaving for Serbia today, as part of the cooperation between Austria, Hungary and Serbia, to cooperate with local authorities there.
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PM Orbán: Hungarians will be proven right over border protection
“Finally! Dear Ursula von der Leyen, dear Manfred Weber, welcome to the club!… We’ve been fighting for stronger borders for 10 years. As it turned out we Hungarians have been right all along,” PM Orbán said.
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Bakondi: Human smuggling can only be eliminated through international cooperation
The European Union’s southern borders are now better guarded thanks to cooperation among EU countries like Austria, Croatia and Hungary as well as non-EU states like Serbia and Montenegro.
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Hungary-Serbia border traffic up last year
A daily 459 vehicles crossed into Hungary at Röszke in 2022, and 344 at Tompa.
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Illegal border entry attempts more than double in a year
The number of illegal entrants apprehended at Hungary’s border jumped to 269,254 last year from 122,239 in 2021, amounting to a daily average of 738 attempts.