Hungary to Control Slovenia Border, Limits Croatia Crossings
- Croatian authorities were sending refugees to Slovenia
- Hungary's razor wire fence extended from border with Serbia
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Hungary took control of its border with Slovenia hours after blocking entry from Croatia, expanding one of the European Union’s toughest sets of measures to stem the influx of refugees.
“Hungary is determined to defend, by all means, its own and Europe’s borders,” government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs told reporters Saturday in Nagykanizsa, western Hungary. “We need to put an end to thousands, hundreds of thousands of people arriving unidentified and in an uncontrolled manner into Europe through Hungary.”