Everything you need to know about the Croatian − Hungarian border

It is possible that the Croatian – Hungarian border will be closed from this week, but its consequences are unclear. Zoltán Kovács, government spokesman said that the Serbian border will serve as the example – index.hu was informed. According to Kovács, the border will be closed if the technical border (similar to the Serbian one) is finished; this might be done by Monday.

First, GYODA will be built (a type of barbed wire that is fast and easy to assemble), and PM Orbán Viktor wishes to talk to the Visegrad Group and to the Croatian Prime Minister as well. This could mean that the closing of the border might be delayed until Wednesday, when Orbán meets PM Zoran Milanovic on an UN meeting in New York; it is unclear, however, if Orbán waits until the meeting to take action.

The most possible scenario is, according to government politicians, that Orbán will not wait for the others, and the closing rather depends on finishing the technical border in time; it most likely to happen either at the end of this week or at the beginning of next week.

Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs will negotiate with the Czech, Polish, and Slovakian prime ministers on the weekend via phone, foreign affair sources said.

If the Serbian border will serve as an example, then it will affect not only the immigrants, but EU citizens as well, if they wish to cross the Croatian – Hungarian border using their passports or IDs.

So far, it is unclear how it will affect international trains as the ‘green border’ is closed by a wired railway carriage as well, being in the way of the Budapest-Zágráb railway tracks. A gate was built on the Budapest-Belgrade route at Kelebia so the trains could run without being blocked; however, such a gate is not possible at all the routes, if they are closed by a carriage. In this case, trains simply cannot pass the border.