'The wave has reached us:' EU gropes for answers to migrant surge

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By Marton Dunai ROSZKE, Hungary (Reuters) - A surge in migrants, many of them refugees from Syria, hit Hungary's southern border on Tuesday, passing through gaps in an unfinished barrier to a Europe groping for answers to its worst refugee crisis since World War Two. Nearing the end of a flight from war and poverty, they walked around or over coils of barbed wire strung out along Hungary’s 175-km (109-mile) frontier with Serbia, children hoisted on shoulders, bags in hand. “There have never been this many of them, and we expect this to continue for a while.” The Balkans is in the grips of an unprecedented surge in migration fueled by war in Syria and instability across the Middle East.




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