Refugees keep coming even as European countries tighten border controls
Hungary has effectively stopped registering thousands of migrants crossing the border from Serbia and is transporting them straight to the Austrian frontier. Germany re-imposed border controls after acknowledging it could scarcely cope with thousands of asylum seekers arriving every day.
Hungarian border police and soldiers stand guard next to a barb-wire fence, near the Serbia-Hungary border. EU ministers are meeting to discuss easing the burden on front-line states.Elvis Barukcic/AFP / Getty Images
Hungarian soldiers muster at the border with Serbia ahead of new laws for migrant entry to Hungary. A record number of 5,809 people crossed the border yesterday.Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
A Syrian refugee holding a baby in a lifetube swims towards the island of Lesbos, Greece after their dinghy deflated 100m offshore. An estimated 309,000 people have arrived by sea in Greece, the International Organization for Migration says.Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters
A group of Syrian migrants sit inside a vehicle stopped by German police on a country road heading to Freilassing, Germany from Salzburg, Austria.Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters
Migrants walk towards a checkpoint along the railway tracks connecting Horgos and Szeged near Roszke, in the vicinity of the border between Hungary and Serbia.Balazs Mohai/The Associated Press
A pair of glasses and medicine lie on the ground after migrants discarded items no longer needed when they cross the Hungarian border in Roszke, Hungary.Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Migrants race across the border from Hungary to Nickelsdorf, Austria. Austria says it will use armed forces to guard its eastern frontier.Leonhard Foeger/Reuters
Accommodations are prepared for migrants at a sports hall in Hanau, Germany.Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
A policewoman directs a car at a checkpoint at the highway A8 between Austria and Germany. Drivers were backed up for miles on the Austria-Germany highway after Germany reimposed border checks.Guenter Schiffman/AFP / Getty Images
Migrants wait after being taken off a train at the border station in Freilassing, Germany. The German government is sticking with its forecast for 800,000 asylum seekers and refugees to arrive in the country this year.Dominic Ebenbichler/Reuters