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In 2015, when Hungary was in the centre of the migratory flow, a new special criminal procedure has been inserted into the Hungarian Act on Criminal Procedure (Act XIX of 1998) referring to the – so-called - crimes against the closing of border. Considering that: (a) the irregular migration did not decrease in the past years, and (b) the main directives of the codification on the new procedural code were the rapidity and the efficiency, the special procedural regulations on crimes against the closing of border had...

The Hungarian Act on Criminal Procedure in force (hereinafter: Act) was modified by the Hungarian Legislator in 15th of September, 2015. The reason of this modification was that the illegal crossing of border and the related acts were declared as criminal offences by the legislator at the same time in the Hungarian Criminal Code. These criminal offences are: illegal crossing the closing of border, damaging the closing of border and hindering the building of closing of border. The aim of the Hungarian Government to...

According to our researches, the relationship between illegal migration and the terrorism should be emphasized. The attitude of the European legislators was changed by the terrorist offences were committed in the territory of the European Union in the past few years. Terrorist offences proved the vulnerability of the European States, and the rule of democratic law. In 2014, 276.113 migrants entered the European Union irregularly, which represents an increase of 138% compared to the same period in 2013. It should b...