Hundreds of migrants, blocked from travelling to Germany by train, have bedded down for a second night outside Budapest’s main Keleti railway station.
Hungary is the main arrival point for those crossing the Balkans by land.
“From the government, we didn’t receive anything, but from the Hungarian people, they are so cute, so nice for us,” said one Syrian woman.
Hungary’s government says it will observe EU rules, which bar travel by those who don’t have valid documents.
“The migrants at the Keleti railway station shouldn’t be there. After the procedure of registration begins at the border, they are being assigned to temporary shelters, to camps where they should stay until their case has been judged,” said Zoltan Kovacs, a government spokesman.
“They don’t comply with that and obviously one railway ticket is not overwriting European law.”
With tensions running high, crowds of migrants have been protesting outside the railway station. There has been no sign of violence, b
