Refugee crisis: Austria will use army in tight border controls Austria follows Germany's lead in increasing border security Thomson Reuters Posted: Sep 14, 2015 6:37 AM ET Last Updated: Sep 14, 2015 7:32 PM ET Police maintain order as migrants attempt to leave the border crossing in Nickelsdorf, Austria, on Monday. Austria announced it would dispatch the armed forces to guard its eastern frontier, following Germany's lead in reimposing Europe's internal border controls after thousands of -- continent while Hungary sealed the main informal border crossing point into the European Union. A majority of EU interior ministers, meeting in Brussels, agreed in principle to share out 120,000 asylum seekers on top of some 40,000 distributed on a voluntary basis so far, according to officials from Luxembourg, which holds the EU presidency. But details of the deal, to be formalized on Oct. 8, were vague with -- as one of the transformative achievements of integration on the continent. Named after a Luxembourg town where it was agreed, Schengen has eliminated frontier posts across the continent since 1995. Twenty-six European countries now issue common visas and leave the borders between them unguarded. Frontiers which were fought over for centuries and which were a -- EU interior ministers held seven hours of crisis talks, with Germany, France and the bloc's executive Commission trying to overcome opposition from eastern members to a plan to compulsorily relocate 160,000 refugees from Italy, Hungary and Greece. They did agree on the need for tighter controls of the bloc's external borders, more aid to the UN refugee agency for camps close to Syria's borders, and rapid screening of arrivals and deportation of those -- EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GREECE Lifejackets hang on a tree on a beach where refugees and migrants arrived on dinghies, with the coasts of Turkey seen in the background, on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday. Of the record total of 432,761 refugees and migrants making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe so far this year, an estimated 309,000 people had arrived by sea in Greece, according to the International Organization for Migration. (REUTERS) -- Soldiers cradled automatic weapons by a metal fence that the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban said will run the length of the frontier with Serbia by October. "We heard the Hungarians will close the border on Sept. 15 so we had to hurry from Greece," 24-year-old engineering student Amer Abudalabi, from the Syrian capital Damascus, said shortly before crossing the border from Serbia. -- Austria had shuttled refugees directly on to Germany. But since Berlin announced border controls on Sunday, migrants have walked across the border into Austria from Hungary at the fastest rate yet, without being able to travel onward. An Austrian police spokesman said by early Monday afternoon 9,000 people had arrived since midnight, after 14,000 on Sunday. The threat to re-impose border controls has spread beyond southern and eastern countries along the main migration paths. The Dutch justice -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that Europe's biggest economy is willing to host hundreds of thousands of refugees and is preparing for as many as 800,000 asylum requests this year. Her vice chancellor said in a letter to party members seen by Reuters that figure could reach 1 million. 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