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Syria’s brutal civil war, which has been raging for years, seemed even farther away.

They are expected to be taken to other camps, including one in the town of Bicske, near Budapest. “We need the government to take its responsibility”, she said. Germany introduced border checks September 13 to try to ensure proper registration of incoming migrants,...

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...

Migrants are surrounded by Italian police officers on the rocks on the shoreline at the French-Italian border in Ventimiglia, Italy, on Wednesday.

Ivan Usmiani, Croatian Red Cross Coordinator in Opatovac, said Red Cross volunteers have been working 24 hours a day, providing food, water, psychosocial support as well as family tracing services to all vulnerable migrants who come into Croatia.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has accused neighbors Serbia and Hungary of hatching a plot to rid themselves of refugees by forcing them to go through Croatia. Angry truck drivers then blockaded the remaining open border crossing.

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

Finland was the only European Union state to abstain from this week’s vote about relocating asylum seekers across the member countries. At the same time, the chancellor emphasized that European standards for accommodation, care and asylum processing must be respected.

The United Kingdom has opted against taking part in the relocation scheme and has its own plan to resettle migrants directly from Syrian refugee camps.

The issue is dominating Tuesday’s meeting of European Union interior ministers in Brussels.

Meanwhile, a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report – released on Monday -accused the police in Macedonia of violence and ill-treatment of refugees streaming into the country from Greece on their way to northern Europe.

An emergency summit by European Union leaders is also scheduled for Wednesday.

“All the other ways are unknown to us”. “You aren’t going to solve these problems by closing borders”.

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.