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About 4,000 have arrived in Slovenia, the UN refugee agency says. Most aim to travel on to Austria, Germany and other countries.
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Slovenia's army has been placed on standby to help police deal with the influx, Prime Minister Miro Cerar said.
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He said Slovenia would accept the migrants as long as Austria and Germany kept their borders open.
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Hungary said it had closed its border with Croatia at midnight on Friday because European Union leaders had failed to agree a plan to stem the flow of asylum seekers.
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Last month it also shut its frontier with Serbia, which was another transit route to Western Europe.
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On Saturday, hundreds of refugees were bussed across Croatia, from its border with Serbia to its border with Slovenia.
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Many had spent weeks walking through Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to reach the Croatian border. |