Hundreds more on the march as refugees stream into Austria and Germany

Austria and Germany threw open their borders to thousands of exhausted migrants on Saturday, bussed to the frontier by a right-wing Hungarian government that tried to stop them but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people. Another column of refugees also set out on foot as Budapest ruled out bussing any more the 175 kilometres (110 miles) to the border from the Keleti train station where there were ugly standoffs for days after authorities blocked migrants leaving the country by train.

It’s not 150,000 (migrants coming) that some (in the EU) want to divide according to quotas, it’s not 500,000, a figure that I heard in Brussels, it’s millions, then tens of millions, because the supply of immigrants is endless.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Austria’s interior ministry said 6,500 people had crossed the frontier since Friday night when Hungary laid on buses after images of hundreds of desperate people walking along motorways made headlines worldwide. Meanwhile a newborn boy was found dead after his parents reached the shores of a Greek island in a boat from Turkey on Saturday, while new scuffles broke out between thousands of refugees and police on another Greek island.

All of Europe needs to wake up. (The time for) reverie is over…Now the continent of Europe is challenged. In this great challenge the entire continent has to give a unified answer.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner.

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