Threats wrong way to get European Union deal on migrant quotas: Merkel

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 way to Austria, Germany and Sweden, the wealthiest and most welcoming European states.

Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Werner Faymann on Tuesday jointly called for a summit to be held next week to deal with Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War II.

“This problem can be solved only through a collective European effort”, she said at a joint press conference with Faymann.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has found herself under fire over allowing thousands of refugees into the country in recent weeks, only to do a U-turn and restore border controls.

Though a majority of interior ministers backed such an agreement in principle at Monday’s meeting, a number of Central and Eastern European countries-including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland-have refused to support it, according to officials familiar with the talks.

“Germany is not ready to be a net payer country in a Europe where everyone wants to join in when they get money, but are not willing to share the responsibility”, he said. From there, refugees travel over land in pursuit of economic opportunity wherever they can find it. Countries such as Germany, Finland, France, Spain and Great Britain are attractive end points for these immigrants. “The refugees simply pass them by”, De Maiziere told national public broadcaster ZDF.

He also suggested that European Union aid funds be used to exert pressure on member states to accept binding quotas of refugees.

The decision “to let in migrants who had piled up in Hungary was right, but it was also natural then to consider how to manage the situation to ensure proper registration of newcomers”, she has been quoted as saying.

Hungary is constructing a fence on its Serbian border in an attempt to keep people out even though many do not want to remain there anyway.

The German government announced the temporary border measures amid complaints by local authorities they could no longer handle the influx of new arrivals, which reached a new record at the weekend.

The people smugglers have begun stopping their cars and trucks at the border and telling migrants to walk into Germany. The army will assist police with an initial deployment of about 640 troops, the Defence Ministry said.