Hungary slams door on refugees

Echoes of the Cold War as EU fails to agree redistribution plan.

Hungary slams door on refugees

Hungary’s right-wing government has shut the main land route for refugees into the EU, taking matters into its own hands to halt Europe’s unprecedented influx of refugees while the bloc failed to agree a plan to distribute them.

Crowds of refugees built up at Serbia’s northern border with Hungary, their passage blocked by a razor wire fence.

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