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Rather than claiming asylum in the first safe European Union country they reach, most head on toward wealthy northern states.

Ministers in Brussels have voted by a majority to accept quotas to distribute people across Europe.

The Hungarians weren’t able to register many of them because they refused to fill out the paperwork, he said.

The current draft would allow for further discussion about how and where to relocate refugees ahead of another ministerial meeting scheduled for Oct. 8. A majority of the bloc’s interior ministers already agreed in principle on Monday to the redistribution, but they could...

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.

Two dozen police in surgical masks and gloves have blocked access to train platforms for more than 400 refugees and migrants holding tickets to Vienna. About 300 are on a motorway, escorted by police.

Greece, Italy and Hungary are too overwhelmed to participate.