“This is going to require cooperation with all the European countries and the U.S. and the worldwide community in order to ensure that people are safe, that they are treated with shared humanity and that we also may have to deal with the source of the problem which is the...
A girl cries after coming in contact with tear gas during clashes between migrants and Hungarian police at the border with Serbia and near the town of Horgos.
“But in the interests of the cohesion of society in the country, we should do everything to significantly reduce the influx of refugees again soon”, he added.
Germany took in 218,000 in the first seven months and, amid last week’s scenes of migrants heading westward on foot from Budapest’s jammed train station, expects as many as 800,000 for the full year.
Hopes of a unanimous deal collapsed in the face of opposition from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania at the crisis meeting in Brussels, officials said. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the crisis is a “German problem”.
Some people have attempted to breach the border, even though Hungary’s right-wing government has promised to arrest and deport migrants who enter the country without permission.
Only if he is granted that, a refugee may receive a work license and can later obtain citizenship.This is why Hungary is overwhelmed with handling the refugee crisis at the moment – the mostly Syrian people come from the East and try to cross Hungary in order to make their...
With the border mostly sealed, though, thousands of migrants were stuck in Serbia, but others were seeking new paths on their way to Western Europe, some choosing to take the longer route through Croatia. Reuters reporters did not see any armed migrants, but television pictures...
“The problem here won’t be solved if thousands of people move to Canada or other countries”, said Mohammed Darwish, a mechanical engineer who brought his family from Aleppo to Kilis earlier this year.
Reuters reporters saw hundreds of migrants, some of whom identified themselves as Iraqis, trek through fields near the official Sid border crossing between Serbia and its fellow former Yugoslav republic, since 2013 a member of the EU.
Vulin visited on Tuesday the border crossing Horgos 1 which was closed today by Hungarian authorities, and said that it was undertaken “without notifying Serbian authorities” and that this created a problem with refugees from the Middle East who keep arriving at the...