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Germany took in 218,000 in the first seven months and, amid last week’s scenes of migrants heading westward on foot from Budapest’s jammed train station, expects as many as 800,000 for the full year.

Weren’t the Hungarians working to the book when they said genuine refugees were entitled to go into Europe, whilst economic migrants were not?

Only if he is granted that, a refugee may receive a work license and can later obtain citizenship.This is why Hungary is overwhelmed with handling the refugee crisis at the moment – the mostly Syrian people come from the East and try to cross Hungary in order to make their...

Buses carrying migrants arrived from Serbia’s southern border with Macedonia to the western town of Sid near the Croatian border on September 16.

Sky News has witnessed a pregnant woman being stretchered from the scene, a young boy being carried away with tear gas in his eyes and scores of other panicked migrants fleeing the riot police.

Hungarian soldiers patrol along the temporary border fence in Roszke, Hungary, at the border between Hungary and Serbia, Sunday, September 13, 2015.

In another instance of the perils facing the refugees on their trek, Austrian police said on Sunday they had rescued 42 people from a refrigerated truck on a highway near the border to Germany.

The region said people were arriving faster than accommodation could be found for them, with the German railway operator asked to provide a train for refugees to sleep in. I would like to express my thanks to all DB employees and volunteers at stations throughout Germany.

Europe’s refugee crisis has taken a new dimension in Germany with the arrival of over 8,000 asylum-seekers in the southern state of Bavaria from Hungary in one single day. “We’re all human. No-one is illegal”.

“Basically we are acting according to the rules”, Pangl said.

Across Germany at the weekend, banners were hoisted at Bundesliga football matches that said simply “Welcome Refugees”. Cameron said specific details of the resettlement plan would be announced next week. Non-EU nations akin to Serbia and Macedonia have been shuttling...

But Giro-Szasz says that Germany has shown a more permissive stance towards illegal immigrants arriving from Syria, adding that the news has “boosted hopes” among migrants.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is expected to visit a refugee center on Wednesday, condemned the attack and blamed it on far-right extremists promoting a “disgusting” message of hatred.

On Tuesday, a suspected arson attack destroyed a school sports hall in the town of Nauen, west of Berlin, that was intended as a temporary shelter for refugees.

For some the aim is to go further north through Macedonia and Serbia, to try to get to the border with Hungary. Police ran blood tests on them for alcohol levels.