Austria warns Hungary it may retaliate in row over migrants
BUDAPEST/VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria said on Wednesday it might be forced to re-instate border controls between it and its European Union neighbor Hungary in response to Budapest refusing to take in asylum seekers sent to it from other EU states.
The diplomatic row between the two neighbors has further weakened the already fragile unity in Europe over how to respond to the flow of migrants into the block and how the burden of dealing with them should be shared out.
Several countries on the EU's periphery say the system for tackling migration is broken, but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to halt asylum seeker transfers is the most radical step taken by any European leader so far....
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