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Six new border crossing stations to open along the Hungarian-Austrian border
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“Six new border crossing stations will be opening along the Hungarian-Austrian border”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Parliamentary State Secretary said at a press conference in Budapest on Thursday.
Levente Magyar told reporters that the Hungarian Government had come to an agreement on the border development projects with officials from Austria and the state of Burgenland within the last few days.
He reminded the press that according to a previous decision, the two countries’ motorway networks will be connected at Körmend and Sopron, in addition to which the railway line connecting Fertőszentmiklós and Neusiedl am See will also be modernised.
The State Secretary said it was part of Hungary’s historical heritage that its borders are relatively difficult to cross:
while in the western half of the continent border crossing stations are 2-4 kilometres apart on average, in Hungary the distance between crossing points is over 20 kilometres.
“This is not right”, he said, stressing that permeability is also required for maintaining business relations and keeping contact with cross-border Hungarian communities, and this was why after 2010 the Government had launched a large-scale development programme thanks to which 18 new road links have been put into commission. “The foundation stone for the new Danube Bridge at Komárom was laid down last week and dozens of new transport links are in the processing of being constructed or in planning”, he said.
“Austria is working to extend the originally temporary, but slowly permanent system of border checks that it introduced with relation to Hungary a few years ago”, Mr. Magyar declared, adding that:
“We regard this as a major threat to the Schengen system”.