Theresa May joins interior ministers across Europe for urgent talksGermany predicts 1 million refugees despite unique border controls David Cameron visits refugees in LebanonUNHCR says refugees face ‘legal limbo’ under unique border restrictionsRead the latest summary 3.19pm BSTWe’re going to pause the live blog for now but here’s a roundup of the latest developments: 3.13pm BSTHungary’s anti-immigraton prime minister,Viktor Orban, has vowed to push ahead with a controversial border crackdown due to reach into force at midnight, or amid UN claims that his government is transporting migrants from the Serbian border to the Austrian frontier ahead of the change. Under the plans Hungary will deport to Serbia migrants who do not use police-supervised border checkpoints to register with authorities.
Speaking to border police,Orban said: “Illegal border crossings will no longer be misdemeanors but felonies punishable with prison terms or bans.”
But Orban advised police to use minimum force and treat the newcomers as fellow human beings. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com