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2015-09-01 — theguardian.com
As men, women and children -- many fleeing Syria's civil war -- continued to arrive from the east, Hungarian authorities let thousands of undocumented people travel on towards Germany, the favoured destination for many. The European Union member -- part of the bloc's passport-free Schengen zone -- had previously insisted that EU rules prevented them from letting people without visas travel onwards to the west.
But see also Chaos in Budapest train station amid Europe's migrant crisis, and on a particularly happy note, Icelanders call on government to take in more Syrian refugees (over 12,000 Icelanders have volunteered to take in refugees).
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