Insight - Orban mobilises Hungary's troops, prisoners, jobless to fence out migrants


  • World
  • Wednesday, 23 Sep 2015

The poles of a new fence on the border with Croatia are set up near Beremend, Hungary, September 21, 2015. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

SAROK, Hungary (Reuters) - Built in a matter of weeks by soldiers, prison labourers and cadres of the unemployed, a vast new wall along Balkan frontiers is a monument to the ruthless efficiency with which Prime Minister Viktor Orban has mobilised Hungary against migrants.

Orban describes the arrival of hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants in Europe this year from Asia, Africa and the Middle East as an attack on the continent's Christian welfare model.

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