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Europe’s new frontline Hungary is a nation on the edge. The Syrian migrant crisis is changing the geography of the old continent. Hungary, inside the EU and Schengen Area, is constructing a tall fence along its border with Serbia, which lies outside both zones
UKRAINE
S LO VA K I A
Proportion of population living below official poverty line
B R AT I S L AVA
VIENNA
growing poorer
AUSTRIA
2008
12.4%
BUDAPEST
2009
HUNGARY
12.3% 2010 ROMANIA
13.8% 2011
14.0% 2012
SERBIA
ZAGREB
14.3%
C R O AT I A
FAC T F I L E H U N G A R Y
Land area
Official languages
35,919 sq mi (93,030 sq km)
Hungarian
$13,470
Population
9,877,365
Capital
GNI per capita
Life expectancy
Budapest
79 Women
Major religions
Christianity 72 Men
Instead of this being a humanitarian response to a refugee crisis, it has become part of a vexed, troubled and often pejorative debate on immigration Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon offers homes to migrants in the country she leads
PROMISED LAND?
3x
Human trafficking arrests in past 18 months in Hungary compared to the long-term average
40
Number of refugees poisoned by eating Death Cap mushrooms in a week in late summer. The starving migrants had mistaken the fungus for an edible species
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