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The BBC's Ben Brown at Keleti train station in Budapest reports: "In the last few minutes Hungarian right-wing extremists have thrown fire crackers into what is a makeshift refugee camp at this station. There were two loud explosions. "A lot of refugees were understandably frightened and some of the men then chased the far-right extremists, who were skinheads. "There were clashes and plastic bottles that were thrown. Riot police were called in." Our correspondent adds the group had clearly come to "goad and antagonise" the refugees
originally posted by: kamatty
still looking through the bbc news entertainment site for that new laws story i mentioned, these events are onfolding so quickly new news is getting lost within the site pretty fast.
I just came back to post this, which again is worrying as it shows how tensions are rising on both sides
The BBC's Ben Brown at Keleti train station in Budapest reports: "In the last few minutes Hungarian right-wing extremists have thrown fire crackers into what is a makeshift refugee camp at this station. There were two loud explosions. "A lot of refugees were understandably frightened and some of the men then chased the far-right extremists, who were skinheads. "There were clashes and plastic bottles that were thrown. Riot police were called in." Our correspondent adds the group had clearly come to "goad and antagonise" the refugees
Serbia is a member of the UN, CoE, OSCE, PfP, BSEC, and CEFTA. It is also an official candidate for membership in the European Union,[10] which is negotiating its EU accession,[11][12] acceding country to the WTO[13] and is a militarily neutral state. Serbia is an upper-middle income economy[8] with dominant service sector, followed by the industrial sector and agriculture. It has a high Human Development Index, ranked 77th in the world in 2014 and a medium-high Global Peace Index, ranked 52nd.[14]
originally posted by: angeldoll
a reply to: kamatty
Yes. AJAM reporting they changed the laws so Hungary now sending refugees to Serbia. Officials in Hungary made the press leave as they remove refugees from the trains.
This sounds brutal and an inappropriate solution.
Serbia is willing to receive a number of refugees permanently, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic announced on Tuesday, a media report said.
Serbian portal Blic quoted Vucic as saying his country was more European than others, as they do not build fences, alluding to the wire fence erected by the Hungarian government on the border with Serbia.
He did not specify the exact figure of the refugees his eastern European country was willing to accommodate.
Vucic also criticised the slowness with which Europe is facing the refugee crisis without adopting a strategy to deal with this problem.
He said that although Serbia is not yet a member of the European Union it aims to become one, and they are ready to assume their share of responsibility.
Since early this year, Serbian authorities have recorded more than 90,000 people, mostly refugees that have been in and out of Serbia. Most are citizens of Syria and Afghanistan fleeing armed conflicts in their countries and seeking to obtain asylum in western EU countries.
Only 500 of them have sought asylum in Serbia, which in turn has approved only 15 percent of applicants.