http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/europe/migrant-crisis-hungary.htmlMigrants Fleeing Hungary Start a Long March Toward Germany
By DAN BILEFSKY, PALKO KARASZ and ANEMONA HARTOCOLLISSEPT. 4, 2015
LONDON — Haggard and defiant, hundreds of migrants stormed out of the Keleti train station in Budapest on Friday and set off on foot towards Germany, choosing a 300-mile walk over spending another night in a country where they are not welcome.
“This is going to go down in history,” said Rami Hassoun, an Egyptian migrant from Alexandria helping to corral the crowds on a six-lane highway to Austria, where the migrants were accompanied by a police patrol.
Elsewhere, hundreds of migrants remained locked in a standoff with the police at the Bicske station outside Budapest, demanding that train service to the west be restored, so they could continue their journeys to more prosperous European countries, like Germany or Sweden.
Hundreds of others stormed out of a reception camp in the country’s south, highlighting their desperation to flee.
The chaos in Hungary reflected the inadequacy of an asylum policy across the 28-member European Union bloc that has forced migrants to register or apply for asylum in the country where they arrive — though in many cases that becomes the country where they are discovered or detained by authorities.
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