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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has pressed other European Union nations to do more to share the burden of this year's influx of migrants. Germany has taken more asylum-seekers than any other EU country.German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the refugee crisis facing Europe was testing the core ideals about universal rights at the heart of the European Union. She added that the migrant crisis presented Germany with a major challenge that would not be resolved anytime soon, urging citizens to show flexibility and patience.
"We stand before a huge national challenge. That will be a central challenge not only for days or months but for a long period of time," Merkel said during a major press conference in Berlin, marking the end of parliament's summer break.
Al Jazeera America
Refugees packed on a crowded train destined for Vienna were detained in sweltering carriages for hours Monday, as a security clampdown on Austria’s border with Hungary underscored the crisis facing Europe and tested the EU’s commitment to free movement among member states.The passenger train was eventually allowed to proceed and arrived in Vienna shortly after, but elsewhere logjams continued. Austria’s crackdown on people smugglers also involved increased vehicle inspections, creating a huge traffic backup on the main Budapest-Vienna highway.
The developments in Austria came as German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on European Union member states to "share responsibility for asylum-seeking refugees," saying that the future of the EU’s Schengen system — which allows for passport-free travel — would be in question if Europe fails to act.
Under EU laws, asylum seekers are required to apply in the first member country they enter — under such rules many of the recent influx of people fleeing war and poverty would have been expected to apply in Hungary.
Spiegel Online
Anger is in the air. Angela Merkel has come to Heidenau and the locals are lined up to see her. But it is anything but a friendly welcome: It is a crowd full of hate. Some call out: "Traitor to Your People!" Others yell "We Are the Pack," a reference to Deputy Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel's strong condemnation of right-wing, anti-refugee demonstrators.It is the pride of idiots. After the chancellor disappears into the former building supplies store, where 400 refugees have found shelter, the residents of the small Saxony town begin talking about the outsiders who have become their temporary neighbors."Did you see the young men? Full of hormones and with nothing sensible to do. They can't help but get dumb ideas," says one tanned pensioner wearing a bike helmet. A woman nods and says she no longer allows her granddaughter to walk past the building supplies store alone.
The Guardian
Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, has pressed other EU countries to do more to share the burden of refugees arriving in Europe, and said “it wasn’t right” that some nations were refusing to accept them.Merkel said the current situation, which has seen chaotic scenes in the western Balkans as tens of thousands of refugees and migrants head north towards Austria and Germany, was “not satisfactory”. She said that Europe as a whole had to deal with the problem.
Speaking at her summer press conference in Berlin on Monday, Merkel renewed her call for a new quota system to be introduced. It would see applications from asylum seekers shared out among the 28-nation bloc. The Franco-German proposal would be discussed on 14 September at a meeting of EU interior ministers, she said.
Reuters
Trains carrying hundreds of migrants started arriving in Vienna on Monday after Austrian authorities appeared to give up trying to apply European Union rules by filtering out refugees who had already claimed asylum in Hungary.In the latest twist in a humanitarian and political crisis that is now testing the survival of both Europe's open-border regime and its asylum rules, Hungary allowed the migrants, many of them fleeing Syria's civil war, to cram into at least four trains leaving Budapest for Austria or Germany.
Many of the refugees arriving in Vienna railway station on Monday evening immediately raced to board trains heading on to Germany, as policemen looked on passively, preferring not to intervene, witnesses said.
A train also arrived in Munich from Budapest on Monday evening. German police said there were about 200 on board.