Hungary last year closed its largest refugee center, in the eastern city of Debrecen, which had place for 1,200 people and opened during the 1990s wars in the former Yugoslavia. A center for nearly 500 people in the town of Bicske, near Budapest, is slated to be shut this year. Gyorgy Bakondi, the prime minister’s homeland security adviser, told the AP that while Bicske, the largest of the three remaining open reception centers, would be closed, there were plans to expand a detention facility for migrants and asylum-seekers in the town of Kiskunhalas.
