Hungary stiffened its resistance on Tuesday to an influx of migrants from Serbia, while more people drowned trying to reach Europe by boat and diplomats kept struggling to address the Continent’s refugee crisis.
The Hungarian authorities declared a state of crisis along the border with Serbia, detaining at least 155 migrants and threatening to prosecute and imprison others who try to enter illegally. Serbia reacted with alarm; its foreign minister, Ivica Dacic, called the turning back of migrants to Serbia “unacceptable,” Reuters reported.
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In the Aegean Sea, at least 22 migrants drowned, including four children, when their 65-foot wooden boat capsized as they were trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and Chancellor Werner Faymann of Austria called on fellow leaders of the European Union to gather next week in Brussels for an urgent summit meeting on the migrant situation. Officials of the union’s member nations tried and failed on Monday to find a substantial collective approach to the crisis.