Desperate migrants set to walk 240-Km from Budapest Railway station to Vienna

Migrants from Syria and other countries who have been stuck at a Budapest railway station for days have now decided to walk to Austria in view of non-availability of trains. The Hungarian authorities are trying to prevent them but they are desperate to reach Western Europe.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 4 September 2015.
In the meantime, the EU states are trying to evolve a common strategy to deal with the crisis as the head of the UN refugee agency wants EU nations to mobilize "full force" and accept up to 200,000 refugees.

It is a real chaotic scene in Hungary which is a main transit country for migrants who are seeking to claim asylum in Germany and other countries in north and west Europe. Many of the migrants who had been waiting for days at Budapest's Keleti station have left and plan to walk to Vienna, in the absence of trains, a journey of 240-Km.
The stand-off between police and passengers on a train held at Bicske station continues. Those who have boarded the train do not want to go to a transit camp. Riot police have reportedly entered the station. A large group of migrants are believed to have escaped from the train.
Moreover, hundreds of people have escaped from a refugee camp at Roszke near the Serbian border. They are being pursued by police while thousands more are still inside and are threatening to break out too.
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Migrants pouring into Budapest create chaos in railway station

The influx of migrants from Syria and other countries is creating a major problem for the EU as it tries to cope with this problem. This refugee crisis seems to be rivalling the Balkan wars of the 1990s and is seen as Europe`s worst since World War Two. The European Union appears helpless and unable to cope with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of poor and desperate people.
Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest`s Eastern Railway Terminus demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany and the biggest ever influx of migrants into the EU has apparently left its asylum policies in tatters.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 2 September 2015.

In all probability, Germany could accept the largest share.
In the case of people who are fleeing the Syrian civil war, the EU has put on hold the rule that asylum seekers must apply in the first EU country they reach. However, with migrants arriving in trainloads into Munich and Rosenheim from Austria and Hungary, it urged other EU countries to abide by it.
As per the terms of European laws, known as the "Dublin rules", the asylum seekers should apply in the country where they enter the EU and remain there till such time their applications are processed. Unfortunately, 26 members of the bloc do not have any border controls between them. Hence, enforcing the law is difficult.
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