Chaotic scenes emerged at the Hungarian border with Serbia yesterday - as police clashed with refugees who were trying to pass into the country and on the Germany and Austria.
Hungarian authorities prevented over 2,000 people from leaving the border, and the frustrated crowd responded by tearing down the police cordon and marching towards Budapest.
Over 22,000 went to Germany alone at the weekend, and France has agreed to take in 24,000 over the next two years.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron has confirmed that 20,000 refugees will be resettled in the UK from camps bordering Syria by 2020.
While Tánaiste Joan Burton has said a figure of 5,000 refugees for Ireland is "in the mix"
Razor wire made taller after refugees climbed over. New laws in #Hungary make it an offence to cut or impede wire pic.twitter.com/vUU1rQ6wbe
— Shona Murray (@ShonaMurrayNT) September 7, 2015
According to the European Commission, more than 160,000 asylum seekers need to be relocated from Italy, Greece and Hungary - nations on the periphery of the EU which have seen an influx of refugees arrive by land and sea.
Germany confirmed it will take 40,000 of this total.
Ireland, along with the UK and Denmark, are exempt from the quota scheme, which aims to proportionately distribute refugees across the 28-nation bloc.
Newstalk.com's Shona Murray is there and spoke to Newstalk Breakfast.
