Noemi Szecsi

A migrant is seen through the fence as he walks before crossing the into the country from Serbia at the border near Roszke, Hungary September 13, 2015.

What’s the matter with Hungary? Writer calls her homeland ‘a depressive country’

Global Politics

Migrants and refugees are trying to leave Hungary as fast as they can. Hungarians don’t blame them, saying it’s a depressed place where no one wants to live.

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