16, 2015. Events on the Serbia-Hungar... . Migrants reach for food being distributed, at the "Horgos 2" border crossing into the Hungary, near Horgos, Serbia, Wednesday, Sept.
Refugees who had arrived on foot from the Salzburg train station in Austria sit under trees in a parking lot after they crossed the border to Germany at Freilassing.
The British philosopher Roger Scruton began giving underground seminars at
the homes of Czechoslovak dissidents in the late 1970s. He was eventually
thrown out of the communist state but the clandestine network he
Riot police fight migrants at the border crossing with Serbia in Roszke, Hungary, yesterday. Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon at migrants demanding they be allowed to enter from Serbia on the second day of a border crackdown.
IN 1946, as the Soviet Union consolidated its communist bloc throughout central and eastern Europe, Winston Churchill declared that an iron curtain had descended across the continent.
Austria has sent a first group of asylum seekers to be accommodated in Slovakia under a deal aimed at easing overcrowding in Austria's main refugee centre, Austria Press Agency reported on Thursday.
The current refugee crisis is being discussed in almost every bar, classroom, staff room and bus station across the continent. The media coverage and public discussion on the current situation is colossal and different opinions and points of view of all degrees are flying around all of us.
The Czech ambassador to Slovakia Livia Klausová, wife of former Czech
president Václav Klaus, is threatening to stay in her post and continue
her functions out of a rented flat in the Bratislava suburb of Petržalka
By MIKE CORDER and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press ROSZKE, Hungary - Declaring a state of emergency, Hungary sealed off its southern border with Serbia on Tuesday and detained those trying to enter illegally, aiming to shut down the flow of migrants pouring in.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Werner Faymann shake hands following a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on September 15, 2015, after their meeting on the refugee crisis.
