In the early morning on a road near the southern border of Hungary. These young people are Kosovo. Illegal migrants in search of a future elsewhere, preferably in Germany.
Since January, they are more than 10 000 have been intercepted in Hungary.
Many are students, like this young woman, disappointed by a country that is not moving since independence in 2008.
"We are disappointed, she says. We fight for years, and nothing changes in Kosovo ... "
Kosovar emigrants go by bus in Serbia, where they can go legally, and after ten hours of driving, they arrive near the Hungarian border. There they attempt to pass on foot through the forest.
If the police arrest them, they can apply for asylum. Meanwhile, they are free and can still try to reach the destination country within the Schengen area. Asylum is refused because they are not refugees fleeing war or persecution, as in the 1990s, and so they are sent back to Serbia.
But, what causes this mass exodus. What has happened?
"What is happening? There is no work, no school, we all leave. Here, there is no future, "replied the candidate to leave.
According to Gabor Eberhardt, head of the border police in this sector, in December and January there were over 1,000 illegal border crossings each day.
"But lately, he says, their number has decreased, now we intercepts between 300 and 700 illegal by day."
Serbian police has indeed started to arrest, and the border was reinforced on both sides, Hungarian and Serbian. Both countries have received technical assistance, thermal cameras, and FRONTEX cars and more borders policemen. Germany, though, has sent 20 police officers at the border.
On the other side of the border, in Palic in Serbia, Kosovar families arrive by taxi to try their luck and walk across. A smuggler to guide them to Hungary costs € 980.
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