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Migrant crisis exposes splits across Europe

Germany says if EU can't agree to fair distribution of refugees, the passport-free zone will be called into question

Published Mon, Aug 31, 2015 · 09:50 PM

    Vienna

    HUGE traffic jams built up along the Austro-Hungarian border on Monday as police hunted for people smugglers, while divisions opened up across Europe over dealing with the influx of migrants and refugees.

    Austria's tightening of security checks came just days after the discovery of 71 dead migrants, four of them children, in an abandoned lorry near the border.

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