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Mr Orban’s chief of staff, Janos Lazar, said that the anti-migrant government will set up container camps on the southern border, where it wants to detain refugees while their asylum requests are being assessed.

There are around to 600 migrants in Hungary waiting for their asylum application to be processed, mostly in open camps, which pose a "security risk".

Mr Lazar said the aim was to restrict them in their movement, keeping them on the border.