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Asylum seekers and Hungarian police at the Croatian-Hungarian border in 2015 (Photo: Eszter Zalan)

'Balkan route' countries pledge to stop asylum seekers

Countries along the so-called 'Balkan route', where hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers crossed in 2015-2016, are pledging not to allow migrants to cross this time.

In an political climate that has turned to the right in the EU - with prime ministers from Hungary and Austria both pursuing a hardline anti-migration policy - many countries are eager to demonstrate that migrants will not cross the EU's borders this time.

Along with Greece, Hungary also announced over the weeken...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Asylum seekers and Hungarian police at the Croatian-Hungarian border in 2015 (Photo: Eszter Zalan)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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