国际英语新闻:Europe Braces for New Wave of Refugees

Austria, meanwhile, said it planned to eventually phase out emergency measures that have made it possible for the migrants to cross the border from Hungary.

"We have always said this is an emergency situation in which we must act quickly and humanely," Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said Sunday. "Now we have to move step-by-step away from emergency measures towards normality in conformity with the law and dignity."

Faymann spoke Sunday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel -- who threw her country's doors wide open to the migrants -- and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose government is building a razor wire fence along the Serbian border to keep the migrants out.

Desire to go home

Syrian refugees interviewed in Vienna overwhelmingly expressed a desire to go home, but said that will not be possible as long as the war between the government of Bashir al Assad and rebel groups continues.

Abdulmalik al Khaled puts that responsibility on the United States. He had a message for U.S. President Barack Obama: “If you want to stop this problem, you have to stop the war. You can do that. I know that. You can.”

Those sentiments were echoed by Duried Bawadkji a Syrian-born resident of Hungary who turned out at the Hegyeshalom border crossing between Hungary and Austria on Sunday to volunteer and help direct the migrants. He said the Obama administration’s support for democratic change in Arab countries has gone wrong. In Syria, he said, the so-called Arab Spring has brought tragedy.

“They are the ones responsible of doing this. Because when you encourage people to go in the streets, either you go and help them and finish the story as you have done in too many countries, or don’t do anything like this.  Just leave people alone.  Leave it how it was.”

For thousands of Syrians, the only option for now is to flee.