AlQa'dah 23, 1436, Sep 7, 2015, SPA -- Calm returned Monday to the main border point between Austria and Hungary after more than 14,000 people used it over the weekend to enter Austria, AP reported. Austrian police spokesman Helmut Marban said that no migrants had arrived at the Nickelsdorf border point since before midnight, when 260 people crossed into Austria and left shortly afterward by train to Vienna. Austria's government, which had opened its borders to the thousands pushing westwards, adopted a wait-and-see attitude. Chancellor Werner Faymann on Sunday announced that emergency measures to deal with asylum-seekers would be phased out "step by step," but no timetable was announced. In a late-night meeting lasting until early Monday in Berlin, the Germany government agreed to spend 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) next year to support the hundreds of thousands of new arrivals. German officials recently predicted that up to 800,000 migrants will arrive by the end of the year, many of them refugees fleeing war in Syria, Iraq and Eritrea.
