Hungary calls up army as migrants enter via Croatia

Hungary claims Croatia sent about 8,000 migrants on Friday

Hungary is calling up part of its military reserves to help defend its borders against migrants trying to enter the European Union.

The reserves can be utilised on the border for everything except law enforcement, according to a defense ministry statement. Croatia is transporting thousands of migrants to the Hungarian border over the objections of the government in Budapest. The migrants, coming through the Balkans, had been diverted to Croatia after Hungary sealed off

its border with Serbia earlier this week. Hungary is taking the migrants to the Austrian border.

Meanwhile, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere wants the European Union to set an upper limit to the number of people it accepts as asylum seekers, Spiegel magazine reported, citing an interview.

"We can't host all the people from conflict areas and all poverty refugees who want to come to Europe and to Germany," the magazine cited de Maiziere as saying. "The right way would be that we in the EU commit ourselves to fixed, generous quotas for the admission of refugees."

Refugees would be sent back to their home regions once quotas are exhausted, and the EU would have to ensure that they can live in these regions safel, de Maiziere said.