Thousands of migrants are on the move across Europe. EuroparlTV investigates the situation on the ground in Croatia and Hungary.

Europe searches for responses to migration crisis

The European Parliament has called on  Member States to show more solidarity.

MEPs have backed the plan  to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers

mainly from Italy and Greece  to other EU Member States.

EuroparlTV went to one migrant route  in Hungary and Croatia.

Beli Manastir, a small Croatian town  situated 5km from the Hungarian border

has become in a matter of hours  a stop-off point for thousands of migrants

blocked on their way to Western Europe by  the closure of the Serbia-Hungary border.

Along the main road, Ahmed and his family  have found refuge at a gas station.

Ever since the war started, everybody  knows that you cannot live in Syria now.

As you see, the children and the women  are sleeping on the street.

Everyone, every government,  should look into their hearts.

These are women and kids,  kids like your kids.

I have to go to Sweden.  My family is there.

My wife's father and mother  and family are there.

The local authorities are struggling  to deal with the influx of refugees.

Reception facilities have been set up  but their capacity will soon be exceeded.

In four days Croatia has received  more than 20,000 migrants –

the number it had expected  to reach in one month.

There was no electricity, water or toilets.  We set up everything. Tents...

They have only one goal,  to cross the Croatia-Slovenia border.

They don't want to stay here.  They have on their mind to leave this town

and to continue their trip  to Western Europe.

When all the people are inside,  the train will start.

The journey west must continue at all costs.

The railway station at Beli Manastir  has been taken over

by people hoping to board  a train to the Croatian capital Zagreb.

The trains are crowded. The occupants  are exhausted by weeks of travel.

Most come from Iraq,  Syria and Afghanistan.

After that, we want...  I wish we can go to Slovenia.

After Slovenia, you want to go to...?  -Vienna, after that, to Germany.

It's difficult, of course it's difficult.  And dangerous.

So many things happen  when you're on your way.

Sometimes I think maybe I'll die on the way.

The disorganisation  and lack of coordination are glaring.

After hours of waiting, some of the refugees  are boarded onto coaches

and directed towards the Hungarian border.

Croatia has reached saturation point  and is twisting Budapest’s arm

to allow migrants  to pass through its territory to Austria.

At the border, migrants are transferred  from Croatian coaches to Hungarian ones.

European countries continue  to pass migrants between each other.

Since the summer, the pressure from  migrants on the Balkan states has built up,

pushing Hungary to build a fence  of over 175km on its border with Serbia.

It is threatening to do the same  on its borders with Romania and Croatia.

It is basically a fundamental right  of every state

to determine who comes in  and who leaves.

Schengen is extraordinary, because  it takes that to a much higher level.

But still, as far as the EU is concerned,

the European Union imposes obligations  on the Schengen member states.

So Hungary is sending  a message to the migrants

that if they come, they have to  go through the official crossing points.

For the Hungarian Prime Minister  Viktor Orbán, the message is clear.

If we were to create an impression  that everyone can come

that would be a moral failure.  Because this is not the case.

So the moral, human thing  is to make it clear: 'Please, don't come.'

Why would you have to go from Turkey  to Europe? Turkey is a safe country.

We can't guarantee  you will be accepted here.

Will the solution to the migration crisis  come from the European Union?

The 28 EU states decided to divide  120,000 migrants between themselves,

against the wishes of Hungary,  Slovakia, Romania and the Czech Republic.

The EU will also release nearly €1bn in aid  to the UN agencies in charge of migrants.

But this response seems feeble  in the face of the largest migration crisis

that Europe has experienced  since the Second World War.