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It gets asylum seekers routed through its territory from Greece and Bulgaria, most often via Serbia, where there were 19,951 illegal crossings in 2013, up 212 percent on the previous year.
But in Hungary, though – as the German broadcaster Spiegel reported in September 2014, there is no functioning asylum system.
Illegal detention is routine and guards use drugs to sedate migrants.The few existing facilities are overflowing, so that many refugees are housed in former military barracks or community buildings converted into prisons for migrants.
In April 2014, more than 40 percent of all male asylum seekers were being housed in a prison.
The reasons for arrest were arbitrary and unclear.
As a rule, migrants were held for a month without having committed a crime.The UNHCR has been critical of conditions in the asylum prisons, calling them "inhumane and demeaning".Detainees remained behind bars typically for four to five months, while some for the entire length of their asylum procedure.
They were locked in their cells much of the day, suffered verbal and physical abuse by the security guards, and were escorted in handcuffs and on leashes to the court hearings or even to doctors, treated like a criminal.Hungarian authorities often automatically started the aliens police procedure and ordered detention of asylum-seekers.
Courts tended to review detention orders in group hearings, dealing with the case of 5-10 people in 30 minutes that was not enough time properly to consider the facts of each individual case.According to UNHCR, asylum-seekers were also routinely deported to Serbia, considered by Hungary as a safe third country.
In Serbia, however, asylum-seekers faced chain deportations to Macedonia and Greece, countries with no adequate asylum systems in place, and where asylum-seekers faced the risk ofto countries where they may have fled danger or persecution.However, resistance to the flow of asylum seekers is also manifest in the Czech Republic where, on Friday, hundreds showed up for a rally in which protesters objected to allowing Muslims to settle in Central Europe (even after this Monday's Pegida rally had been cancelled.The centre-left Czech government has so far been reluctant to offer asylum to refugees from the Middle East because of concerns that potential terrorists might be among them.
It eventually agreed to take in 70 Syrian refugees under EU pressure, against thousands presenting themselves to the rest of the EU.But that also makes the Czech government a potential ally for Mr Cameron, who is not looking quite so isolated on this issue as some might aver.
Softly, softly, "Europe" is going his way.
He may well confound Juncker, and bring home his treaty, sufficient for him to call upon the British to renew their wedding vows.
× PHOTOS: Tornado damage in Tupelo, Mississippi Forecasters declared a tornado emergency for three counties around Tupelo, Mississippi, on Monday afternoon as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through the area, the National Weather Service reported.
“It’s going to be wave after wave of these storms, from what the forecasters tell us,” Mississippi Emergency Management spokesman Greg Flynn said.
Another twister was reported near Yazoo City, Mississippi, north of Jackson, but there was no immediate report of damage or injuries.
Monday’s storms hit four years after an April 2010 tornado that killed four people in Yazoo City and 10 across the state, said Joey Ward, the city’s emergency management director.
MORE: Storm chaser video of Tupelo tornado | Tupelo meteorologist yells for staff to take shelter on live TV during tornado PHOTOS: Utility pole & crushed utility truck on hwy 45 in tupelo pic.twitter.com/2UxFEUfCyz — Tish Clark (@local24tish) April 28, 2014 Tupelo apts damaged by tornadoes.
pic.twitter.com/IZ00brtzt2 — Tish Clark (@local24tish) April 28, 2014 Tornado damage here in Tupelo pic.twitter.com/e2zNEIdX5c — Earl Brown (@cosine55) April 28, 2014 Some stuff hitting us in tupelo, ms #TheWeatherChannel pic.twitter.com/IywvoR8WSL — Nicholas Massey ✌ (@AThinkingMind) April 28, 2014 https://twitter.com/1ChrisForrester/status/460901413623566336 A rare before and after tornado shot from Tupelo pic.twitter.com/EB6tlnlPI9 — Jimmy Carter (@askjimmycarter) April 28, 2014 One of my best high school memories, gone.
pic.twitter.com/9rPy032rGv — Kyle Holliman (@thekholly11) April 28, 2014 Another photo from what looks to be from Tupelo area.
RT @jayward11: pic.twitter.com/XiZ5EniK4H — Kennan Oliphant (@TVNewsGuru) April 28, 2014 RT @WiscoWX: Car rolled by tornado in tupelo pic.twitter.com/jxLFTzs8iI — The Daily Rapid (@earththreats) April 28, 2014 Major tornado damage in Tupelo area!
pic.twitter.com/OMRf1gVh7V — Rock104 (@Rock104FM) April 28, 2014 From @DanielShawAU live stream- flipped semi in Tupelo, MS after tornado pic.twitter.com/OvynGycVPh — SevereStudios (@severestudios) April 28, 2014 This is Vanellis in Tupelo where I work.
Everyone is safe.
Praising God for His hand of mercy over my coworkers.
pic.twitter.com/2iyDneDy9O — Brandy Davis (@brandydavis01) April 28, 2014 Just arrived on scene in Mayflower AR.
It's a mess out here.
With @edlavaCNN pic.twitter.com/KLvQ7Bm9Sd — Josh Rubin (@jrubin) April 28, 2014
At the sacred convocation of Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Edmonton (25 May), and the Call Service of Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines (27 May), the following placements were announced.
More news and photos will follow later.
Pastoral Candidate Placements Andrew Cottrill (CLTS): Zion Lutheran Church, Yorkton, Saskatchewan Kirk Radford (CLTS): Christ Lutheran Church, Sarnia, Ontario William Rose (CLS): Redeemer/Zion/Christ/St.
Paul’s Lutheran Churches, Portage la Prairie/Plumas/Neepawa/McCreary, Manitoba Paul Schulz (CLTS): Trinity Lutheran Church, Mallard, Iowa; Zion Lutheran Church, Ayrshire, Iowa Vicarage Placements Matthew Fenn (CLTS): Our Saviour Lutheran Church and Parish, Dryden, Ontario Michael Mayer (CLS): Redeemer Lutheran Church, Didsbury, Alberta Christopher McLean (CLS): Redeemer Lutheran Church, Kitimat, BC Shiekh Lief Mauricio (CLS): Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, Winkler, Manitoba Kenneth Stadnick (CLS): Advent Lutheran Church, Evansburg, Alberta Diaconal Intern Placements Lenora Wallden, DPS (CUE): Holy Cross Lutheran Church, Kitchener, Ontario CLS = Concordia Lutheran Seminary, Edmonton, Alberta CLTS = Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary, St. Catharines, Ontario CUE = Concordia University Edmonton, Edmonton, Alberta
Ed Miliband’s pledge to lower the voting age to 16 has been mostly overlooked, thanks to the furore over energy prices.
Aside from the principle of the issue, what impact might it have on election results?
As I’ve covered previously (see here and here) there is mounting evidence that today’s young people are more right wing than their parents’ generation – certainly on issues of welfare, taxation, the deficit and individual responsibility.
Being so doesn’t automatically make them Conservative voters, of course, but even that measure shows some increases.
YouGov regularly find that 18-24-year-olds are the second most likely age group to vote Tory after the over 60s, and Wednesday’s poll produced the remarkable result among young people of both Labour and the Conservatives at level-pegging on 40 per cent.
Yet another example of this cropped up on Newsnight earlier in the week in a package exploring how 16- and 17-year-old voters might use their newfound power if Labour were to be elected (you can watch it below in full).
The programme asked a focus group of teenagers in the age bracket to choose where cuts should fall and where more spending should be allocated.
Their first choice for the axe was the welfare bill, as a near-unanimous decision.
They were even divided on whether to make savings from the pension bill.
Sure, it’s an unscientific exercise but it was remarkably in keeping with the polling evidence which shows the young becoming remarkable hawkish when it comes to the welfare state.
It’s a BBC programme, so needless to say this went entirely unremarked – it’s something we should watch closely, all the same.
(video clip courtesy of liarpoliticians)
Amanda Clarke and Victoria Grayson will go one final round in the Revenge series finale.
The ABC soap is ending after a sure-to-be-epic showdown in the season 4 finale, and Us Weekly has a sneak peek at the women facing off in the episode.
"For you, death is my only true revenge," Amanda (Emily VanCamp) hisses at Victoria Grayson (Madeline Stowe) while aiming a gun at her sworn enemy.
The elder Hamptonite was presumed dead after framing Amanda for her murder, but is, in fact, very much alive — and unafraid of death.
PHOTOS: TV shows gone too soon "I died long before you were born.
This is just a formality," Victoria says.
"Are you ready now?"
Amanda ominously responds, "More than you know.
Goodbye, Victoria."
Dun dun dun!
Things aren't looking good for the two rivals, and executive producer Sunil Nayar told Us Weekly ahead of the finale that nothing will be the same for either woman if they make it out alive.
"Is this a woman that is able to shake off the shackle of what her mission has been?
Should she survive, what is that survival going to look like?
Because I think there’s no way to get out of this untainted," the showrunner dished of Amanda/Emily's potential fate.
PHOTOS: The most shocking TV deaths ever The finale will focus on "the idea that each character, in some form or another, gets their moment of redemption and destruction," he continued.
"What is the collateral of what’s happened to all those people?
I think we’ve answered those questions very elegantly and in a lot of times very surprisingly in the finale."
PHOTOS: Emily VanCamp and Josh Bowman's real-life love story Of course, the Grayson/Clarke rivalry will take center stage.
"The show is Victoria and Emily," Nayar said.
And as for Victoria, "[the Victoria vs. Emily] dynamic is the lifeblood of the show, and I think the work [Stowe] did this year was exceptional.
You’ll see where Victoria’s story ends up next week but it is the right ending."
The Revenge series finale airs Sunday, May 10 at 10 p.m.
ET on ABC.
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ABC chairman Jim Spigelman has strongly criticised the federal government's proposed anti-discrimination law, saying it poses risks to freedom of speech.
Mr Spigelman, former New South Wales chief justice, said there was no justification for including the notion of ''offending'' in the definition of discrimination.
The legislation consolidates several anti-discrimination laws, including that on racial discrimination, which refers to treatment that offends.
The proposed law extends ''offending'' into the definition of discrimination for all purposes.
Delivering an oration on Human Rights Day, Mr Spigelman pointed out that none of the other existing Commonwealth acts - covering sex, disability and age discrimination - included conduct that only offended.
The freedom to offend was an integral component of freedom of speech.
''There is no right not to be offended.
I am not aware of any international human rights instrument, or national anti-discrimination statute in another liberal democracy, that extends to conduct which is merely offensive,'' he said.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Lebanese army found a surface-to-air missile (SAM) in a weapons cache left by Nusra Front militants after it took over some of the jihadists’ positions in northeast Lebanon, a Lebanese security source said on Friday.
The cache also included U.S.-made so-called TOW anti-tank missiles, the source said.
Photographs of the cache sent by the security source showed large numbers of shells and rockets.
There have been sporadic reports throughout Syria’s six-year-old civil war of rebel groups gaining access to SAMs.
Last year the Syrian government said rebels had used one to shoot down a jet, but insurgents said they had downed it with anti-aircraft guns.
The Nusra Front was the official branch of al Qaeda in Syria until it changed its name a year ago and broke formal allegiance to the global jihadist network.
It held a pocket of territory straddling the border between Syria and Lebanon until a Hezbollah offensive last month that forced it to accept evacuation to a rebel-held part of Syria.
Lebanon’s army has taken over the positions that Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shi’ite group allied to the Syrian government, took from the Nusra fighters last month.
The Lebanese army is also preparing for an offensive against the last militant presence in the mountainous border area, an Islamic State pocket near to the one previously held by Nusra.
FOR a politician whose party leader called a General Election because the opinion polls told her that she’d get a whopping majority, only to discover once the votes were in that she’d lost the slender majority that she had, you’d think that Ruth Davidson would be a bit more circumspect about demanding that parties in power make decisions based on opinion polls.
But no, Ruth Davidson wants the Scottish Government to drop the bill that’s already been passed by the Scottish Parliament, and she wants them to drop it on the basis of an opinion poll.
You’d have thought a Tory would have learned their lesson about relying on opinion polls, but not Ruth.
It’s not even as though the opinion poll in question, which purportedly showed that 60 per cent of people oppose another independence referendum, was unbiased and neutral.
It asked a ridiculously leading question, a question phrased in such a way as to positively beg people to say “no”.
The truth is that asking people whether they want another independence referendum is a meaningless exercise, in whatever way the question is phrased, and the reason it’s meaningless is because it takes no account of circumstances or motives.
I’m hugely keen on the idea of independence, you may have noticed, but if I was asked in an opinion poll if I wanted a referendum tomorrow, I’d say no.
I want another referendum when the circumstances are right for one.
I want another referendum when we’re going to win it.
So, despite the fact that I spend much of my time travelling the length and breadth of Scotland talking about independence and encouraging the formation of grass roots Yes groups, Ruth Davidson would still take my opinion and include it in whatever she’s citing at FMQs as “proof” that Scotland doesn’t want another independence referendum.
The best time for another independence referendum is at the time that the Scottish Government originally proposed to have it – when the Brexit negotiations have played out and we know what sort of deal the UK has struck with the EU.
The people of Scotland have a right to vote on that.
Ruth doesn’t want us to have that right.
She wants us to take whatever it is that the UK chucks at us and to be grateful for it.
What Ruth Davidson is demanding is that the people of Scotland surrender now and for all time the right to have a view on what British governments impose on us.