German Police were carrying out checks on the Austrian border on Monday following Berlin's stunning decision to reintroduce passport controls, as a new record migrant surge into Hungary raised the stakes ahead of crunch EU talks. Chancellor Angela Merkel's dramatic reinstatement of checks on Germany's frontiers marked a new phase in the continent's migrant crisis and struck at the heart of the EU's cherished Schengen agreement, which allows
border-free travel throughout most of the bloc. “Europe's inaction
in the refugee crisis had driven Germany... To the limit of its capacity,” her deputy Sigmar Gabriel said. Hungarian authorities said Monday
they had registered a record 5,809 migrants streaming into the
country the day before.