VIENNA: The latest developments as European governments rush to cope with the huge number of migrants moving across Europe. All times local (CET):

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12:20 p.m.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has visited a home for refugees in Berlin and says she hopes that the integration of newcomers will be helped by their children learning German in school.

Merkel's brief visit Thursday to a refugee home in the suburb of Spandau came as Germany contemplates the task of absorbing the influx of refugees from Syria and elsewhere.

Merkel told reporters after her closed-doors visit that she spoke with two refugee families, one of them with two children now attending a kindergarten. She said: "Their integration will certainly take place in part via the children, who will learn German very quickly in kindergarten. And I hope and believe that the great majority will want to learn our language very quickly."

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11:50 a.m.

Hungarian police are rejecting allegations that they mistreat migrants, as a record high of more than 3,300 entered the country in just one day.

Police said Thursday around 1,000 officers were on duty on the border with Serbia, where 3,321 migrants had been detained Wednesday.

Spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs said migrants at police-run points near the border with Serbia and at registration centers are being given provisions and medical attention. She called allegations of abuse "blatant lies," saying "illegal migrants are being looked after regularly and constantly."

A day earlier, Peter Brouckaert from Human Rights Watch had described "horrific" conditions for migrants in Hungary, calling it "unacceptable that people are being treated like animals on the doorstep of Europe."

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11 a.m.

Germany's vice chancellor says a new European Union plan to relocate 160,000 refugees around Europe is a good "first step" but the numbers show clearly more is needed.

Sigmar Gabriel told Parliament in Berlin on Thursday that Germany had registered some 450,000 migrants this year, including 105,000 in August and 37,000 in September through Tuesday.

"That shows that the redistribution of 160,000 refugees in Europe is a first step," Gabriel said. "One could also say a drop in the ocean that won't solve everything."

The EU proposed Wednesday in Brussels to share 120,000 refugees from Greece, Italy and Hungary among 22 member states, on top of a proposal in May to share 40,000 refugees from just Greece and Italy.

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10:05 a.m.

Denmark's police chief says his officers have been ordered not to stop hundreds of migrants who have entered the country via Germany.

Jens Henrik Hoejbjerg says Danish officers "can't detain foreigners who do not want to seek asylum (in Denmark)."

Hoejbjerg said Thursday that the National Police made the decision late Wednesday. There was no immediate reaction from the Danish government.

Under European Union rules, people seeking asylum should do so in the first EU country they enter and not travel from one country to another. Many migrants say they want to go on to Sweden, Norway or Finland, because they have relatives there or believe that conditions for asylum-seekers are better.

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10 a.m.

Austrian police say more than 3,000 migrants crossed into Austria overnight at Nickelsdorf, the main border point with Hungary.

They say a train carrying up to 500 migrants left for Vienna early Thursday but most remain at Nickelsdorf.

Interior Ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundboeck says authorities are meeting to discuss whether further special trains will be sent to the border to take people to Vienna's Westbahnhof terminal. Most of those arriving there since the influx began last weekend chosen to continue on to Germany.