Daily News Hungary
Saturday May 28, 2022
Hungarian, Czech and Austrian police arrested 177 illegal
migrants entering Hungary in Csongrád-Csanád county in nine groups at night,
the Hungarian police website said.
The illegal entrants apprehended in outlying areas of
Roszke, Asotthalom and Morahalom identified themselves as nationals of
Pakistan, Syria, Somalia, Turkey, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Morocco and Tunisia.
Police: Close to
10,000 refugees arrive from Ukraine on Thursday
Meanwhile, fully 5,341 people crossed into Hungary directly
from Ukraine on Thursday, while another 4,232 from Ukraine crossed from
Romania, the national police headquarters said. Police issued temporary
residence permits valid for thirty days to 305 people, the police website said
on Friday.
Holders of such permits must contact a local immigration
office near their place of residence within thirty days to apply for permanent
documents, it added. Budapest police received 259 refugees, 102 children among
them, arriving by train, according to the municipal police website.
Government to create
a crisis-proof economy?
The draft budget for next year submitted to the Fiscal
Council sets a stricter deficit target of 3.5 percent of GDP and the public
debt level of 73.8 percent, Mihály Varga, the finance minister, said on Friday.
Varga said in a comment posted on social media that the government’s aim was to
create a crisis-proof economy.
The economy is expected to grow by 4.1 percent in 2023, he
said.
The minister said the government is establishing a special
protection fund as a bulwark against the effects of the war and the related
European Union sanctions, as well as higher energy prices.