Romania criticises Hungarian plan to extend border fence

Romania criticised a plan by Hungary to extend its new border fence eastwards towards Romania, a move announced earlier on Tuesday as a way of stopping migrants looking for alternative ways to enter its territory.

"The Foreign Ministry considers that erecting a fence between two member states that are strategic partners to be not a correct gesture from a political point of view and not in line with the European spirit," the ministry said. "The Hungarian side was notified about this stance."

Hungary has already been building a 175-km (110-mile) razor wire fence on the Serbian boundary, across the main land route for migrants into the EU.