More Austrian police officers to join Hungarian border protection efforts
On Monday, 7 police officers joined the 18 already serving in Hungary, and their number is planned to come to 48-50 by the end of the month, to conduct joint...
On Monday, 7 police officers joined the 18 already serving in Hungary, and their number is planned to come to 48-50 by the end of the month, to conduct joint...
The tragic death of Mateusz Sitek, a Polish soldier stabbed while repairing a border fence with Belarus, underscores the severe challenges faced by European countries in controlling their borders against...
Hungary was hopeful the central European member states could reach an agreement on the need to protect the bloc’s external border in the region.
Minister Szijjártó said both Hungary and Flanders were “supporters of rationalistic politics, promotion of free trade, and the crucial importance of protecting Europe’s external borders”.
The president said the border officers guaranteed that Hungarians felt safe in their country.
The president expressed her strong belief that strong borders represent a strong country.
In a recent classified report, Hungary’s National Information Center examines the growing challenge of illegal migration along the Serbian-Hungarian border.
Bence Rétvári confirmed that Hungary’s position remains that the external borders must be protected and asylum application procedures must be conducted outside of the external borders of the EU.
Minister Szijjártó said central Europe was at the focal point of two crises, the war from the east and migration from the south.
The latest data shows that 91,000 people tried to cross the border illegally this year and criminal proceedings were undertaken against 700 people smugglers who typically operated in large gangs.
Since the start of the war, some 1.15 million people had crossed the Hungarian border, 38,000 had submitted an asylum request and 34,000 of these have been approved.
A 10-kilometer section had been added to an earlier fence of 165 kilometers in the Hercegszanto area.
The Hungarian officers will use their own equipment, which includes off-road vehicles, night vision devices and mobile infra-red cameras during their patrols.