Doctors treat new wave of asylum seekers

“What we suggest is all major players of world politics should bear a few burden”.

It was important that world powers partially to blame for the turmoil accepted the fallout, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. As of Tuesday, the group says 522,124 people have traveled by sea to reach the continent this year, compared to a few 219,000 people in all of last year.

His suggestion, however, seemed to contradict other statements he made in the same press conference.

“They (Hungarian authorities) are considering closing border crossings”.

Now Berlin has moved to tighten its control over the stream of asylum-seekers reaching its territory, announcing that it is asking parliament to reduce payments to the migrants and mostly distributing benefits in kind, such as housing and food, rather than offering cash. Hungary is building similar fence on the Croatian border.

Naval personnel of European Union nations will be allowed “to board, search, seize, and divert vessels suspected of being used for human smuggling, ” it said. But how will they stop people?

Hungarian police Monday said that they have arrested five Pakistani nationals for illegally attempting to cross the border into the country. So far, one court has convicted 176 migrants and expelled them from Hungary, while acquitting no one. Schmidt resigned earlier this month amid accusations he failed to adequately prepare Germany for the refugee crisis, but Szijjarto took the opportunity Tuesday to jab at his policies anyway.

A municipality worker clears the area around tents at Victoria square, where many migrants stay temporarily before trying to continue their trip to more prosperous northern European countries, in Athens, Monday, September 28, 2015.

‘Europe is not in a shape to accept hundreds of thousands or even millions of economic migrants, ‘ Szijjarto said.

Up first? Deploying troops to secure and protect Europe’s borders and prevent anyone else from coming in. And he propsed a “joint European force” to be assembled in Greece, the entry point for most migrants, to secure the EU’s external borders.

“We have dreams to have a peaceful life, without war, without any other distractions,” he said.