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"Belgrade-Budapest train trips to take 2.5 hours in future"
A contract to reconstruct the Belgrade-Budapest railroad will be signed next week, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has announced.
According to the website Vojvodina Today, representatives of Hungary and China this week in Beijing initialed an intergovernmental agreement that is paving the way for the reconstruction works.
Hungary Takes Over Migrant Truck Deaths Investigation
Hungary has agreed to take over from Austria the investigation into the death of 71 migrants found in an abandoned truck near the Austria-Hungary border.
Vienna earlier asked for the step because it argued its work was more or less done, the Budapest Times reports.
Ambassador expects Hungary to declare state of emergency
Hungary has been passing stricter rules toward migrants for a while and will certainly also declare a state of emergency, says Rade Drobac.
Drobac, who serves as Serbia's ambassador in Budapest, told the Belgrade-based broadcaster TV Pink on Tuesday morning that things "culminated by last night's shutting down of the whole border, or at least of a large part of it."
Border-free Europe unravels as migrant crisis hits record day
Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unravelled on Sept.14 as countries re-established border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of migrants, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day.
Hungary's Orban: EU should pay Turkey, other countries to help handle migrants
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Sept.7 that the European Union should give financial support to Turkey and other non-member countries to help them deal with the stream of migrants and refugees trying to reach Europe.
Syrian refugees continue Europe 'journey' on foot
Hungarian authorities were locked in a stand-off with migrants who left Budapest?s main train station on foot for Austria, while the U.K. said it would take thousands more Syrian refugees as the crisis gripping Europe mounted.
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Hungarian police force migrants off train as confrontation emerges
Hungarian police halted a train packed with migrants bound for the Austrian border and tried to force them to disembark in a town with a detention camp on Sept. 3, a confrontation that has become a focus of Europe's migration crisis.
Hungary reopens station for migrants, but trains not running
The main train station in Budapest has been reopened for hundreds of migrants, after authorities closed it to them for two days.
People flooded the platforms when the gates were opened, BBC said.
Passportless Migrants Protest in Budapest at Hungary's Travel Ban
Hundreds of migrants protested in Budapest on Wednesday at Hungary's decision to prevent them from travelling to Germany and other EU member states, the BBC reported.
The protests, now in their second day, have begun after Hungarian authorities banned travel for migrants without valid documents in order to comply with EU rules.
Migrants still stranded in front of Budapest train station
The Hungarian police in Budapest continue to block the main train station for some 3,000 refugees who wish to travel to western European countries.
Many have spent the night in front of the station.