Yahoo News Digest — Border-free Europe unravels as refugee crisis hits...

Europe

Two decades of frontier-free travel across Europe unraveled on Monday as countries reestablished border controls in the face of an unprecedented influx of refugees, which broke the record for the most arrivals by land in a single day. Germany’s surprise decision to restore border controls on Sunday had a swift domino effect, prompting Austria to deploy its army to help control the rush of people trying to leave Hungary before it starts arresting illegal refugees on Tuesday.

We have to pull ourselves together today; if not, Europe will be torn apart.

Luxembourg Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Jean Asselborn

Monday’s measures were the biggest threat so far to the Schengen system of a passport-free Europe. Ministers from the bloc gathered in Brussels to try to heal deep divisions over refugee policy. A quota system to redistribute 160,000 refugees has created tension between EU countries. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, one of the loudest critics of immigration, which he calls a threat to Europe’s Christian heritage, told officers at the border to be humane but “uncompromising.”

You will meet with people who have been deceived. You will be met with temper and aggression.

Viktor Orban