Krîza Penaberan li Ewrupa - Îlon 24, 2015
Migrants reach for cookies after boarding a train at a station near the village of Zakany, Hungary, Sept. 24, 2015. Deeply divided European Union leaders held an emergency summit to seek long-term responses to the continent's ballooning crisis of refugees and migrants, a historic challenge EU President Donald Tusk said the bloc has failed dismally to meet.
A police vehicle leads migrants as they walk towards the Austrian border from Hegyeshalom, Hungary. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said the European Union migrant quota system approved in Brussels is "seriously flawed" and Hungary is considering challenging the decision in court.
Migrants wait on a bridge for their registration and transport by German police to a refugee shelter, in Salzburg, Austria at the border to Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the potential benefits resulting from the influx of migrants and refugees far outweighs any dangers.
A Syrian refugee man rests on a bridge after he and other migrants spent the night waiting for their registration and transport by German police to a refugee shelter in Freilassing.
Volunteers sort donations at a clothing depot for migrants in a fair hall in Hamburg, Germany.
Children play with the gifts they got for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha from well-wishers of a local muslim community in Hanau, Germany.
Meanwhile, tensions escalate between Serbia and Croatia as the long-time foes struggle to come up with a coherent way to deal with tens of thousands of migrants streaming through the Balkan nations to seek sanctuary in other parts of Europe. A long queue of vehicles waits at the no man's land at the Batrovci border crossing near Batrovci, about 100 km west from Belgrade, Serbia.
A migrant woman pushes her children's pram as they walk in the rain towards the Hungarian border from Botovo, Croatia.
Migrants carry an elderly woman as they walk on a field, after they crossed the border with Serbia, near Tovarnik, Croatia. European Union leaders could promise billions of euros in new funding for Syrian refugees at an emergency summit where they will also try to patch up bitter divisions over the migration crisis.
Migrants sleep at transit camp in Gevgelija, Macedonia, after entering the country by crossing the border with Greece. A tide of refugees from the Middle East and Asia showed no sign of abating, after European Union leaders began the task of trying to prevent tens of thousands of people fleeing war or poverty from streaming unchecked through the continent.
More than 260,000 asylum-seekers have arrived in Greece so far this year, most reaching the country's eastern islands on flimsy rafts or boats from the nearby Turkish coast. Lesbos is the main destination for mostly Syrian migrants heading from Turkey to Greece.
A small inflatable dinghy with a suspected smuggler on board is stopped by a Greek coast guard patrol boat, in Greece’s eastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos.
Syrian migrants offer Eid al-Adha prayers outside the Sarayici oil wrestling arena in Edirne, Turkey. EU leaders pledged at least 1 billion euros for Syrian refugees in the Middle East and closer cooperation to stem migrant flows into Europe at a summit described as less tense than feared after weeks of feuding.