Asylum system collapsing in Europe
By Agencies in Vienna, Austria and Munich, Germany | China Daily | Updated: 2015-09-02 07:42
Free passage across borders poses problem for 26 countries in the Schengen Area
Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU.
As thousands of men, women and children - many fleeing Syria's civil war - continued to arrive from the east, authorities let thousands of undocumented people travel on toward Germany, the favored destination for many.
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