Austria plans to end measures allowing migrants from Hungary and move ‘towards normality’


A police officer stands next to a van crowded with migrants on the highway near Gyor

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Austria said on Sunday it planned to end emergency measures that have allowed thousands of refugees stranded in Hungary into Austria and Germany since Saturday and move step by step “towards normality”.

Austria had suspended its random border checks after photographs of a Syrian toddler lying dead on a Turkish beach showed Europeans the horror faced by those desperate enough to travel illegally into the heart of Europe, which is deeply divided over how to cope.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/07/us-europe-migrants-hungary-idUSKCN0R40FO20150907

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