Over 200 migrants were arrested this week after Serbian authorities cleared a makeshift migrant camp along the Hungarian border. Traffic along the Balkan migration route continues to surge.
The Interior Ministry also noted that they had seized cash and weapons during a search near the town of Srpski Krstur, which also lies along the Hungarian border.
Activity along the Balkan route has surged this year. Earlier this week, Serbian president Aleksandar Vučić met with Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Austrian chancellor Karl Nehammer to discuss the growing number of illegal arrivals.along the Serbian-Hungarian border and extend it by around seven miles, while also increasing its height to just over 16 feet. The leaders also proposed further meetings in Belgrade and Vienna to discuss more measures.
“Serbia does not want to become a hotspot, we do not want people to stay with us,” President Vučić said following the meeting, while Prime Minister Orbán noted that illegal migration had taken a back seat to other issues in Europe, such as the war in Ukraine and the looming winter energy crisis. Other Central European countries have also reported large increases in illegal migrant arrivals, such as the Czech Republic.this year and they recently enacted temporary border controls along the border with Slovakia, a fellow EU member-state.
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