Migrant crisis: Hungary PM to meet EU migrants for talks

Hungary's leader is to meet European leaders in Brussels for talks on the migrant crisis, with thousands still stranded at a Budapest railway station, BBC News reports.
 

Since Tuesday, migrants have been prevented from getting on trains to leave Hungary as EU states struggle to agree on how to deal with the crisis.

Many in Budapest have tickets and want to travel north, but Hungary says it is enforcing European rules.
Germany, Italy and France have demanded a fair distribution of refugees.

At least 2,000 people are now waiting to travel from Keleti station, having been prevented from boarding trains on Tuesday. Some were involved in scuffles with police on Wednesday night.

They had bought tickets after Hungary briefly appeared to abandon efforts on Monday to register migrants, allowing huge numbers to board trains to Vienna and southern Germany.

"We don't want to stay in Hungary, we want to go to whatever place we want," one Syrian man, Mohammed, told the Associated Press agency. "They are forcing us to stay here."

Elsewhere in the Hungarian capital, thousands marched in solidarity with the migrants, and demanded the government do more to help them.