Germany Greets Thousands of Refugees as Hungary Lifts Block
Migrants protest outside a train that they are refusing to leave for fear of being taken to a refugee camp, on Sept. 4, in Bicske, near Budapest, Hungary. The train has been held at Bicske station since yesterday .
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Thousands of refugees who had been stranded in Hungary were allowed to cross Austria and began arriving in Germany on Saturday, as Europe faced a mounting influx of distressed migrants.
After phone calls late Friday between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, the decision was made to let refugees in Hungary, many of them Syrians, into Austria and Germany, Georg Streiter, Germany’s deputy spokesman, said by telephone.