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“But in the interests of the cohesion of society in the country, we should do everything to significantly reduce the influx of refugees again soon”, he added.

Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said on Tuesday that 277 migrants had so far entered Croatia from Serbia following Hungary’s border closure.

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.

Hopes of a unanimous deal collapsed in the face of opposition from Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania at the crisis meeting in Brussels, officials said. Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the crisis is a “German problem”.

EU interior ministers will meet Monday to discuss a plan unveiled by European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker to share out 160,000 refugees across the bloc and ease the burden on frontline states.

Some people have attempted to breach the border, even though Hungary’s right-wing government has promised to arrest and deport migrants who enter the country without permission.

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...

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...

Crying children fled the acrid smoke and dozens of people were injured in the chaos.

Reuters reporters saw hundreds of migrants, some of whom identified themselves as Iraqis, trek through fields near the official Sid border crossing between Serbia and its fellow former Yugoslav republic, since 2013 a member of the EU.

The 40-year-old was sacked by the right-wing N1TV online channel after video of her taken by other journalists went viral. He said he hopes to reunite with relatives in the Netherlands.

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

“If someone claims to be a refugee, he will be asked if he filed an asylum request in Serbia“.