EU interior ministers signed off on existing plans to house 40,000 refugees but agreed only to the broad outlines of proposals to relocate an additional 120,000, as a cluster of eastern European countries continued

to balk at a proposed quota system.

“The majority of the member states are ready to move forward, but not all,” EU Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos told reporters on Monday after the Brussels meeting. “We did not have the agreement we wanted.”

Germany’s prediction that it alone could be the destination for 1 million migrants in 2015 laid bare the scale of the crisis, which has turned the cross-continental wanderings of Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans and others into a test of Europe’s cohesion.

The meeting’s chairman, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn, held out the prospect of forcing through a decision by a supermajority when the ministers next get together on Oct. 8 or possibly earlier. Alternately, a summit of EU

leaders may be called.

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Migrants told to register at key Hungary-Serbia border crossing

Police in Hungary have blocked a key crossing into the country from Serbia and is directing migrants to an official registration point.

Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Poland say they are all tightening their borders to deal with the tens of thousands of migrants trying to enter Europe.

Hungary is currently building a fence to protect its border.

Migrants told to register at key Hungary-Serbia border crossing - BBC News

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