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Immigration: Hungary Will Not Be Forced To Change Its Cultural And Ethnic Composition, PM Orbán Tells Envoys - Hungary Today
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Gathering in Brussels for an emergency meeting, interior ministers from across Europe agreed to share 40,000 migrants sheltering in Greece and Italy, but only on a voluntary basis, a watered-down version of a plan announced in May. But as the fractious meeting stretched into the evening, there seemed little prospect that ministers would endorse a new plan put forward last week by Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, for a program of resettlement for a further 120,000 asylum seekers that would be compulsory for member countries.
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Soldiers were deployed on Monday near Roszke, Hungary, close to the Serbian border.
Jean Asselborn, the minister of foreign affairs of Luxembourg, which holds the union’s rotating presidency, told a news conference late Monday that a majority of countries accepted “in principle” Mr. Juncker’s plan, but added that the discussions had been “very difficult.” Discussions will not resume until next month, a blow to Mr. Juncker, who last week pleaded for “immediate action.” In a sign of the disharmony caused by Europe’s worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, ministers did not issue a joint final statement as is customary and left Luxembourg to issue a summary of the discussions in its own name.
The rancorous haggling in Brussels over the distribution of 160,000 migrants — a small part of the total — played out as Austria, Slovakia and the Netherlands introduced border controls on Monday, after a decision by Germany on Sunday to set up checks on its own southwestern frontier and halt train traffic with Austria. The reintroduction of border controls, described as a temporary measure to restore order to an often chaotic flow of migrants, was the most serious challenge in years to Europe’s cherished system of passport-free travel across much of the Continent.
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On Monday, the last day before Hungary sealed off its Serbian border with a razor wire fence, a record 15,700 people arrived in eastern Austria via the border town of Nickelsdorf. "The night was a bit quieter. We have had around 1,800 people from midnight until now," said a spokesman for the Austrian police in the eastern province of Burgenland.
Hungary has over the last couple of weeks transported tens of thousands of migrants to its Austrian borders and left them to walk into Austria. "We think that many thousand people were still on the go in Hungary before the border closed and they will surely make their way to Nickelsdorf here in Austria and try to continue their journey to Germany," the spokesman added. A total of 4,537 asylum seekers reached Germany by train on Monday despite the imposition of new controls at the border with Austria, German police said on Tuesday.
Discussions in the interior ministry in Vienna were still ongoing on Tuesday morning about the exact nature of the army's role in controlling Austria's border, the Austrian police spokesman said. "As a result of these talks it will become clear for us how these border controls will work, how will they be carried out and where and with what intensity and how the army is integrated," the spokesman said.
Migrant flow into Austria slows as Hungary shuts borders: police
The intensified crackdown by the Hungarian government shows how dire the crisis is -- both for the country and for refugees escaping bombings and terrorism in their homelands. Hungary has now plugged in the final hole in the fence at the Serbian border. And beginning Tuesday, anyone caught climbing the razor-wire fence faces up to three years in jail. "We call this as a temporary fence. Obviously it is rather a must decision than a nice decision," Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said. "We don't like building fences, but up until we are able to reinstate border control on the natural border/green borders of the country, we have no other choice."
Registration and entry to Hungary will now be possible only at two assigned entry points, he said. Authorities captured a record 9,380 migrants crossing from Serbia into Hungary on Monday, Hungarian police said. That's nearly double the previous record of 5,809 migrants set one day earlier. Yet throngs of refugees, carrying everything they had on their backs, kept walking along the fence Tuesday, trying to find a way through.
Migrant boat deaths
A migrant boat headed to Greece sank off the coast of Turkey, killing at least 22 people, the Turkish coast guard said. So far, 249 people have been rescued. The coast guard deployed five ships to try try to find more survivors. The sunken boat was found off the Turkish island of Kara Ada, in Bodrum Bay. The boat was headed to the nearby Greek island of Kos, the semi-official Anadolu News Agency reported. At least 72 migrants have died "in recent days" trying to make the same crossing from Turkey to Greece, International Organization for Migration spokesman Joel Millman told CNN on Tuesday.
The domino effect