Vámosszabadi agrees to use the former workers’ hostel building as a refugee camp, mainly for women and families, as a temporary solution.

Gyula Kovács, leader of the Győr-Moson-Sopron county Office of Immigration and Nationality announced at the beginning of June that a camp for 216 illegal immigrants will open in Vámosszabadi, near the Hungarian-Slovak border.

The Ministry of Interior and the leaders of Vámoszsabadi will review the situation of migration in March 2014 and will decide about the further use of the building.

The leaders and inhabitants of Vámosszabadi are aware of the pressure that is put on Hungary due to immigration and accept the fact that there is need for a new station in order to host asylum seekers. 

At the end of June, Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér announced that Hungary’s ninth refugee camp will be in Vámosszabadi. He explained his decision with the large number of asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Hungary and could not be accommodated in any of the already existing camps.

Director General of the Office of Immigration and Nationality Zsuzsanna Végh emphasised earlier that most of the maximum 200 people to be housed in the outskirts of Vámosszabadi have fled from war and have young children.

(Ministry of Interior)