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Hungary says to bus migrants to Austrian border
Source: Reuters
World | Fri Sep 4, 2015 4:59pm EDT
Hungary says to bus migrants to Austrian border
BUDAPEST | BY KRISZTINA THAN AND SANDOR PETO
Hungary said on Friday it would send thousands of migrants by bus to the border with Austria, appearing to capitulate to crowds who broke away from riot police and struck out on foot for western Europe in a day of chaos.
The chief of staff to right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said around 100 buses would be sent within hours to pick up thousands of migrants camped out in front of Budapest’s main railway terminus and another 1,200 striding down the main highway to Vienna, led by a one-legged Syrian refugee and chanting “Germany, Germany!”
“This does not automatically mean that they can leave the country,” Janos Lazar told a news conference. “We are waiting for the Austrian government’s response.”
A spokesman for Austria’s interior ministry told Reuters: “We have been informed and – together with the humanitarian organizations – we are getting ready for the arrival.”
The move by Orban’s government appeared to mark a climbdown in the face of overwhelming numbers of migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, determined to reach western Europe having fled war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Hungary says to bus migrants to Austrian border
BUDAPEST | BY KRISZTINA THAN AND SANDOR PETO
Hungary said on Friday it would send thousands of migrants by bus to the border with Austria, appearing to capitulate to crowds who broke away from riot police and struck out on foot for western Europe in a day of chaos.
The chief of staff to right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban said around 100 buses would be sent within hours to pick up thousands of migrants camped out in front of Budapest’s main railway terminus and another 1,200 striding down the main highway to Vienna, led by a one-legged Syrian refugee and chanting “Germany, Germany!”
“This does not automatically mean that they can leave the country,” Janos Lazar told a news conference. “We are waiting for the Austrian government’s response.”
A spokesman for Austria’s interior ministry told Reuters: “We have been informed and – together with the humanitarian organizations – we are getting ready for the arrival.”
The move by Orban’s government appeared to mark a climbdown in the face of overwhelming numbers of migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, determined to reach western Europe having fled war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/04/us-europe-migrants-hungary-idUSKCN0R40FO20150904