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Hungary can seal off its border with Croatia as it did with Serbia but is waiting for Austria and Germany to decide whether they want to let more migrants in, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Thursday. Going back to the border crossing with Hungary which...

Since the fighting broke out in 2011, more than four million Syrians have fled their homeland, according to the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.

A diplomatic row escalated in Europe on Sunday as governments clashed over how to handle migrants making their way across the continent.

On Thursday, Croatia shut seven of eight road border crossings with Serbia after more than 11,000 refugees overwhelmed the frontier over the past two days.

The hope of thousands of refugees and migrants of reaching western and northern Europe have been dashed yet again following Slovenia’s decision to temporarily suspend railway traffic from Croatia.

Late on Thursday Croatian officials announced they were closing roads leading to seven border crossings with Serbia.

Huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean have created a political crisis in the European Union.

Slovenia Prime Minister Miro Cerar tweated Thursday that his country is committed to protecting the EU’s external borders.

Ban said at the news conference: “I was shocked to see how these refugees and migrants were treated, it’s not acceptable”.

They are desperate to get around the border fence Hungary has thrown up along its border with Serbia, where tensions boiled into violence on Wednesday at the flashpoint Horgos-Roszke crossing, after around 500 refugees had been blocked on their march north.

“We will repair the fence, in fact we will put up a stronger fence“, he said.

A girl cries after coming in contact with tear gas during clashes between migrants and Hungarian police at the border with Serbia and near the town of Horgos.

With the border mostly sealed, though, thousands of migrants were stuck in Serbia, but others were seeking new paths on their way to Western Europe, some choosing to take the longer route through Croatia. Reuters reporters did not see any armed migrants, but television pictures...