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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.

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."

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.

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