More EU states impose border checks

More EU countries have said they are imposing border checks to deal with an influx of migrants. Austria, Slovakia and the Netherlands said they would tighten controls, hours after Germany imposed checks on its border with Austria. Hungary will bring in new border controls at midnight. The new measures challenge the EU's Schengen agreement on free movement. Meanwhile, European interior ministers are beginning emergency talks in Brussels on the migrant crisis. EU states are struggling to cope with a record influx of non-EU migrants, many aiming for Germany, where the vice-chancellor said one million may arrive this year. They are due to vote on a plan from May to redistribute an initial 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea through mandatory quotas, though Central and East European states have opposed this. The EU has since raised the total number of people it seeks to share out through quotas to 160,000 asylum seekers across 23 EU states.  On arrival in Brussels, Slovak Interior Minister Robert Kalinak said he was against the quota plan, because "it's not possible to hold the migrants in the countries by force". Some other ex-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe also oppose mandatory quotas. Austrian police said up to 7,000 people had arrived from Hungary on Monday, and 14,000 on Sunday. Chancellor Werner Faymann said troops were also being deployed, primarily to provide humanitarian help within Austria, but would be sent to the border if necessary. "If Germany carries out border controls, Austria must put strengthened border controls in place," Vice-Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner said, according to a news agency----Aminul.