The Latest: German navy rescues 400 migrants off Libya
The German news agency dpa reports that members of the German Navy frigate Schleswig-Holstein rescued the migrants, who were mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, in a three-hour effort Saturday 35 kilometers (22 miles) off the Libyan coast.
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.
Most migrants fleeing war and poverty want to proceed toward the rich countries of Western Europe such as Germany or Sweden.
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 year as many refugees fleeing war traveled to Western Europe.
The government has deployed thousands of armed troops to the border as the country has imposed a state of emergency in border areas.
A top general, Tibor Benko, said the reservists are former soldiers who will mostly fill in for active-duty soldiers to keep normal operations going in barracks, though some could also be deployed to the border.
Police said Saturday more people are coming in from Serbia, mostly near the eastern border town of Tovarnik, where there are already 2,500 people waiting for transport.
Right-wing rioters have protested in front of a new asylum shelter in the eastern German town of Bischofswerda, throwing a bottle at a bus arriving with refugees and shouting racist slurs at them.
The German news agency dpa reported Saturday that around 100 rioters tried to block the road to the asylum shelter and that police had to protect the refugees from them as they entered the building late Friday.
Nikos Lagadianos says a coast guard vessel rescued 10 other migrants from the same boat, while one managed to swim ashore, and 14 are still missing.
The migrants and refugees want to transit Croatia in hopes of seeking asylum in more wealthy Western European nations, such as Germany.
Police say border controls continue to be in place, with vehicles being selectively checked and those inside asked for valid travel documents.
Thousands of migrants, many lacking food and water, remain trapped in southeast Europe after countries began putting up barriers that have blocked their passage to Western Europe.