The Latest: Croatia-Hungary border post now a bus depot
In orderly, calm lines — so different than the chaos this week at other crossings — the migrants walked across the border to climb aboard blue Hungarian buses heading for registration centers.
A U.N. refugee agency spokesman says the UN estimates that 80 percent of the people entering Europe through the Balkans are from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Minister Mitko Cavkov accompanied EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn on Saturday as he toured a migrant camp in Gevgelija, on the southern border with Greece, where about 5,000 people are passing through daily on their way to Serbia and more prosperous European countries.
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has opened up a tourism center at a mountain resort, saying the move is part of the same struggle to defend the nation that has seen him build fences against migrants.
What's happening here is an important part of nation building.
Since we want to defend our lifestyle, we also want to build up our normal life.
More than 500 people with Finnish flags have formed a symbolic human wall across a road in the border town Tornio in northern Finland to protest against the arrival of migrants from Sweden.
At the end of his two-day visit to Macedonia Saturday, Hahn said the bloc needs to help Balkan countries cope with the flow of people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
In a routine procedure with a now smooth process of registration, migrants are allowed to board trains, buses or taxis heading to the northern border with Serbia.
Croatia's prime minister says his government has forced Hungary to let migrants into the country again after sealing off the border with Serbia earlier this week.
The Defense Ministry said in a statement Saturday that Defense Minister Istvan Simicsko ordered the reservists to report "due to the state of crisis caused by the illegal migrants."
Hungary became a major entry point into the European Union this yea