Munich on the brink of opportunities due to the influx of migrants – BBC Russian

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Image caption Authorities Munich frantically looking for new opportunities to place refugees

In Germany keep coming more and more workers: police in Munich reports that only last Saturday arrived there 13 thousand people.

The city authorities say that are unable to cope on their own with such a large number of refugees.

“We have reached the highest limits of our capacity,” – said a police spokesman.

The city authorities are looking desperately for a place to accommodate the arrivals . “We lack a thousand to 5 thousand people,” – said in an interview with the newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung” city mayor Dieter Reiter.

The authorities are considering using as a temporary reception center for Olympic Palace “Olimpiahalle” built in 1972 for the Olympics.

Europe as a whole is struggling to cope with a huge influx of refugees, mostly from Syria, but also from Afghanistan, Eritrea and other countries.

Image caption From Serbia to Hungary continue to come thousands of refugees

The Hungarian authorities are preparing to completely block the border with Serbia, to prevent its transition refugees . However on Saturday it had crossed more than 4 thousand people.

According to official figures, since the beginning of this year, from Serbia to Hungary profit of 175 thousand refugees. Basically, they were sent to Austria and Germany.

Image caption The Hungarian authorities are preparing to close the border with Serbia is already by Tuesday

Correspondent BBC BBC Nick Thorpe, who visited the city of Szeged on the Hungarian side of the border with Serbia, said that there is hastily built infrastructure in the camp for migrants at the station Rozka.

Friday reported ill-treatment of security guards with the inhabitants of the camp, which over the barbed wire throwing packages of food.

On Saturday, the Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann drew parallels between the treatment of Hungarian refugees and the attitude of the Nazis toward the Jews.

In response, Foreign Minister of Hungary Peter shchart called the remarks of Chancellor slander.

However, the same Saturday, 4 thousand refugees crossed the border with Hungary, were sent to the field where built dozens of large tents, including the UN agency for refugees.

Most of the migrants want to continue the journey in the Nordic countries by neighboring Austria, but the Hungarian authorities insist that EU rules they must be registered in Hungary.

The European Commission announced last week plans to introduce mandatory quotas for the deployment of an additional 125 thousand refugees among the 25 EU Member States.