Alex Thomson
Migrants and refugees: does opening door make it better or worse?
Another round of insults about who is racist and who is progressive is achieving nothing at all in the stymied, divided, impotent EU.
Search results for ‘Serbia’
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Migrant crisis: EU ministers agree plan
European ministers agree a plan to share out 120,000 asylum seekers across the EU, despite opposition from former communist countries.
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Hungarian PM warns refugees are ‘brutal threat’ to Europe
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls the mass migration of thousands of refugees a “brutal threat” to Europe.
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Migrants: Croatia refuses to become ‘hotspot’
Croatia says it cannot cope with the thousands of migrants who have crossed its borders this week and is moving people on to other countries.
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European refugee crisis: Croatia, the new pinch point
The latest dramatic scenes from Eastern Europe show chaos at yet another country’s border. This time, the focus of those trying to reach Western Europe is Croatia.
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Hungary uses water cannon and tear gas against migrants
Hungarian riot police use tear gas and water cannon against refugees trying to cross the border from Serbia on the second day of a crackdown on migrants.
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Alex Thomson
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Refugees arrested under strict new Hungarian border laws
Hungarian authorities are arresting refugees crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border as tough new border control laws are introduced.
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Hungary to clamp down on illegal border crossings
Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban has today said “rebellious” migrants and refugees will face arrest from next week.
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Refugees fleeing to Europe expected to reach 400,000 says UN
The number of refugees fleeing across the Mediterranean to Europe could reach 400,000 by the end of the year, says the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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Refugee crisis: thousands arrive in Austria
Thousands of refugees and migrants cross into Austria after the Hungarian authorities give up on trying to seal its borders.
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Europe’s migration crisis: what we know so far
Is this really the biggest refugee crisis since 1945? What are the facts behind the headlines?
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Refugee crisis: Hungary’s problem with xenophobia
Facing criticism for erecting a razor-wire fence and forcibly moving people to camps, prime minister Viktor Orban says he is defending Europe’s “Christian identity”.
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Hundreds of refugees begin 100 mile march to Austria
Refugees, among them those in wheelchairs and on crutches, have lost patience waiting for trains in Hungary have begun a hundred mile march to Austria.
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Lindsey Hilsum
The chaos of EU refugee policy in Hungary
There were scuffles and screams – in the chaos a distraught Syrian man pushed his wife and baby onto the tracks as some kind of desperate protest.
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Refugees lie on train tracks in fear of being taken to camps
Scuffles break out at a small Hungarian train station as refugees lay on the train tracks in fear of being taken to camps.
