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Hungary train stand-off enters second day
Published in Albawaba on 04 - 09 - 2015

A tense stand-off between police and migrants on a train in Hungary is continuing into a second day.
On Thursday, police let the migrants board the train in Budapest but then tried to force them off at a refugee camp to the west of the capital.
Hungarian MPs face a key vote later on whether to tighten border controls as migrants try to pass through to their preferred destination, Germany.
Three other European meetings on Friday will discuss the migrant crisis.
Members of the European Commission are also flying to the Greek island of Kos to examine the difficulties caused by the large numbers of refugees and migrants landing there.
The UN has meanwhile urged the EU to admit up to 200,000 refugees as part of "a mass relocation programme" that had the "mandatory participation" of all member states.
A statement from Antonio Guterres, the UN High Commissioner of Refugees, said Europe needed to build "adequate reception capacities", especially in Greece, replacing a "piecemeal" approach with a "common strategy".
'Ashamed'
The Hungarian MPs will also vote on creating new holding camps for migrants, and on whether the situation constitutes a state of emergency.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Thursday described the situation as a "German problem" as Germany was where those arriving in the EU "would like to go".
However, Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn - who is heading the EU meetings on the crisis - criticised Hungary's conservative leader on German television on Thursday night, saying: "One sometimes has to be ashamed for Viktor Orban."
European Council President Donald Tusk said at least 100,000 refugees should be distributed across EU states - a sharp increase on a previous European Commission target of 40,000.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande said they would present plans for the redistribution of refugees within the EU.
The British government, in particular, is coming under growing pressure to take in more migrants.
British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to announce plans to allow more Syrian refugees into the country, to help ease a crisis brought to the fore this week by images of a three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned in Turkey.
Mr Cameron is heading to Spain and Portugal for talks on Friday that are sure to include the migrant crisis.
The crisis is also due to be discussed at a series of high-level talks across Europe on Friday:
The leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary will hold an extraordinary summit in Prague.
European Commission officials will arrive on the island of Kos, in Greece, where thousands of migrants have arrived by boat.
EU foreign ministers will meet in Brussels.


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