Tag: migrants
World 19.12.19 | 14:43

V4: Hungarian FM says UN tries to force through its migration compact rejected by many states

Hungary, along with some like-minded countries, including Poland, who share a similar position on migration, will make every possible effort to prevent the UN’s global migration package from becoming a basis of reference in international law, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a UN...
Macedonia 18.12.19 | 14:19

Increase in the number of illegal migrants intercepted in Macedonia in 2019

The Macedonian Interior Ministry reports that it stopped 18.488 illegal migrants from crossing the country in 2019. This is an increase of more than 5.000 cases, compared to 2018, when 13.143 migrants were stopped. Overwhelmingly – over 90 percent – these were people crossing into Macedonia...
Macedonia 16.12.19 | 14:04

Two migrants, from Cuba and Afghanistan, arrested after crossing into Macedonia from Greece

An Afghan and a Cuban illegal migrant were arrested yesterday in two separate incidents on the Macedonian border with Greece. The Afghan man – a 26 year old identified as J.I., was arrested at a hotel in Old Dojran, on the border with Greece. It was determined that he crossed the border illegally. The...
World 07.12.19 | 14:59

V4 summary: Migrant groups on the move in the UK, Greece, Spain

More than a hundred migrants attempted to reach the EU by boat last week, with almost a record high of seventy-nine trying to cross the English Channel to reach the United Kingdom in a single day. A boat carrying an African group of migrants on their way to the Canary Islands capsized near the Mauritania...
Balkans 28.11.19 | 13:18

V4: More than a thousand migrants arrive in Greece in just a few days

Seven hundred migrants in twenty-four hours. It might seem like a record, but it is commonplace in Italy and Greece. Migration pressure has been growing continuously in the Southern European region, with 1350 migrants landing on the Greek islands just last weekend, reports the V4 news agency. After Italian...
Macedonia 27.11.19 | 10:39

Van with 25 illegal migrants slides off the road between Sveti Nikole and Kumanovo

A passenger van carrying 25 illegal migrants had an accident on the regional road between Sveti Nikole and Kumanovo. Police found that the driver has fled and some of the migrants had sustained injuries, Alsat TV reported. The group was taken to the Kumanovo hospital for treatment. Kumanovo is the main...
Macedonia 24.11.19 | 19:34

Strumica police officer arrested as the was extorting money from a Syrian migrant

A police officer from Strumica was charged with transporting Syrian migrants. The officer was stopped three days ago, as he was extorting 10 EUR from a Syrian citizen who he said will help provide with transportation. The police did not reveal how large the group was. The 29 year old officer was detained....
Balkans 21.11.19 | 17:11

Greece urges Turkey to stop using migrants to pressure EU

Greece called on Turkey to fully implement the EU-Turkey statement on curbing migration and stop using refugees and migrants to pressure the European Union and Greece for more concessions, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday, Kathimerini reports. “As a democratic country based on the...
Macedonia 21.11.19 | 14:15

Group of 33 illegal migrants intercepted near Strumica

A group of 33 illegal migrants were found in the village of Svidovica near Strumica yesterday. The group included mostly Afghans, with some Pakistanis, Iranians and Iraqis. It is believed that they crossed over the border with Greece and were planning to make their way north, to the EU states. The group...
Balkans 21.11.19 | 11:12

V4: New Greek government gets tough on immigration

The infamous camp on the Greek island of of Lesbos will be closed and migrants will be moved to new, closed camps to prevent them from coming and going as well as possibly escape, reports the V4 news agency. What’s more, NGO groups failing to comply with the new rules will be banned from operating...
Macedonia 19.11.19 | 15:37

Avramopoulos: Macedonia has not asked for EU funds to build migrant camps

Macedonia has not asked the European Union for financial support for building migrant and refugee camps, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos said Tuesday at the EU-Western Balkans ministerial forum on Justice and Home Affairs answering a journalist’s question. Among the main...
Macedonia 18.11.19 | 18:54

Seven illegal immigrants from Syria stopped near Kumanovo

Seven Syrian illegal migrants were arrested last night in the village Recica near Kumanovo. The men were stopped after a report that a Renault van is transporting migrants. They were sent to the Skopje transit center. Recica is close to the border with Serbia, in a region which is a busy crossing for...
Macedonia 01.11.19 | 20:14

Police finds 14 illegal migrants following a traffic accident near Demir Kapija

After a traffic accident that involved an Audi car and a Volvo truck yesterday evening near Demir Kapija, the police found 14 illegal migants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. The men remained at the site of the accident and told the police that they were all driven in the Audi. The driver of the...
Macedonia 28.10.19 | 12:25

Villager arrested harboring 81 illegal migrants from the Milddle East let go by the police

Naim Alili from the village of Vaksince, who was arrested for migrant trafficking after 81 Middle Eastern migrants were found in his farmhouse, has been released by the Kumanovo police. Alsat TV reports that the man remains a suspect, but that the police decided to let him go a few days after the arrest. Macedonian...
Macedonia 26.10.19 | 11:10

Macedonian police finds more than 80 illegal migrants hiding in a village on the border with Serbia

Macedonian police uncovered 81 illegal migrants hiding in a farmhouse in the village of Vaksince, on the border with Serbia. The village is the main crossing point for illegal migrants who are using the Balkan route on their way north toward the European Union countries. The group included 62 adults...
World 25.10.19 | 22:40

V4: Orban calls on the EU to help Turkey provide for the return of migrants to Syria

Hungary’s interest is for Turkey to let migrants go to Syria and not Europe, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Regarding Brexit, Orban emphasized that the primary concern for Hungary’s government is to ensure that the interests of Hungarian employees are not harmed, the V4 news...
Balkans 15.10.19 | 20:46

Avramopoulos warns that the fighting in Syria could cause another migrant wave

European Commissioner in charge of migration Dimitris Avramopoulos warned that the renewed fighting in Syria can cause a massive migration wave toward Greece. Avramopoulos discussed the Turkish operation in north Syria and said that it can dislodge thousands of Syrians to flee into Turkey. He blamed...
Macedonia 11.10.19 | 22:47

Two illegal migrants from Cuba arrested near Bitola

Two men from cuba were detained yesterday morning as they were trying to illegally cross into Macedonia from Greece. The men aged 39 and 19 were caught by border police near the village of Dragos, and were sent to the Bitola police station. Most of the illegal immigrants who cross the border from Greece...
Macedonia 07.10.19 | 11:27

Macedonian police stops van with 27 illegal migrants, as Greece moves 466 from the islands to the border

Macedonian police detained two migrant traffickers from Bogdanci, close to the border with Greece, as they were transporting 27 illegal migrants. Seventeen of the men are from Pakistan and 10 from Afghanistan. They were driven by a Citroen van which was stopped by the police near Strumica. Meanwhile,...
World 03.10.19 | 15:40

V4: Migrant attacks young woman in Italy

A migrant has brutally assaulted a young woman in an underpass in a central Italian town. The attack was recorded by a surveillance camera, V4 news agency reported. A video shared by opposition Lega party chief Matteo Salvini shows a migrant trying to stop a young woman in an underpass in the Central...
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