‘I’ve been arrested 4 times but I’m still going to try’

Thousands of refugees sit on the dirty mats that have come to define Budapest’s grand Keleti station. Many have travelled the now risky Balkan route through Macedonia, Serbia, and finally Hungary, hoping to link up with family and friends in Germany and Austria.

Travelling into Hungary is becoming increasingly fraught.

The once safe route into the wealthy northern EU countries is now policed with dogs and border guards and fenced off with barb wire.