Hungary Ready to Build Fence on Romanian Border to Deter Migrants
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REUTERS/ Leonhard Foeger
Hungary will most likely build a fence on its border with Romania in order to deter migrants, the head of the Hungarian prime-minister's administration, Janos Lazar, said Thursday.
MOSCOW
(Sputnik) — According to Lazar, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and
Slovakia have come to the agreement that the migrant issue should be
first of all solved at Greece's borders.
"We are a ready to build a technical barrier
on the border with Romania. Today we have a high probability that this
cannot be avoided," Lazar said at a press conference, as quoted by the
Ziua news agency.
The European Union is currently struggling to manage a massive
refugee crisis, with hundreds of thousands of people fleeing
conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The EU
border agency Frontex recorded more than 1.8 million illegal border
crossings into the EU in 2015.