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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.

Vulin visited on Tuesday the border crossing Horgos 1 which was closed today by Hungarian authorities, and said that it was undertaken “without notifying Serbian authorities” and that this created a problem with refugees from the Middle East who keep arriving at the...

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

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.

Overwhelmingly, they want to go to Germany or Sweden.

They were taken to processing centers before they were allowed to leave Hungary.

“I played [Nicolas] Anelka and people asked me, “Why did you not buy anybody?’ and Thierry Henry the same. There is a little bit of history because of what happened and overall it was always very hard for us”.

The ministers also agreed to implement a network of refugee camps which would be set up initially in Italy and Greece – where most refugees enter through – and later would be expanded overseas, in Middle Eastern and African countries.

Greece’s caretaker government chartered two extra ferries and sent additional staff to Lesbos to speed up the registration and ease overcrowding on the island, where more than 20,000 refugees and migrants had been living after arriving on dinghies from the nearby Turkish coast.

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”.

To rub salt into Giroud’s wounds, manager Didier Deschamps decided to replace him with Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema, who was linked with a switch to north London throughout the summer. Aleksandar Mitrovic pulled one back for Serbia five minutes before halftime.

Once across, the Hungarian police shepherd them toward a roadside meeting point beside the maize fields, where buses roll up to take them to a nearby registration centre, on the next short leg of their tortuous road north.

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.

With the increasing number of asylum-seekers and migrants arriving in the region, UNHCR appealed to all the governments involved to make sure that they handle the situation with sensitivity and abide by their global obligations.

At the Greece-FYR Macedonia border itself – reported calm after chaotic scenes late last week – people are now crossing in groups of up to 300-400 and then travelling onwards by train or bus to Serbia.