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Hundreds of migrants trying to board a train at a station in Budapest, Hungary.

Hungarian Prime Minister says migrant crisis is 'a German problem, not a European one'

Meanwhile, a Ukip candidate reportedly tweeted that a young Syrian boy died because his family was “greedy for the good life in Europe”.

Updated: 9.08pm

HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER Viktor Orban insisted today that the migrant crisis is a German problem, not a European one as he defended his government’s handling of thousands of refugees flooding into his country.

There were chaotic scenes at a train station in Bicske near one of Hungary’s four main refugee camps earlier today as hundreds of people refused to get off a train to be taken to a refugee camp.

When they boarded the train they believed it would take them near the Austrian border but it stopped instead at Bicske where hundreds of police were waiting to remove them from the train and take them to the camp.

Belgium EU Hungary Migrants Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pauses before speaking during a media conference at the EU Council building in Brussels today. Virginia Mayo / PA Virginia Mayo / PA / PA

The country is a key entry point for tens of thousands of migrants entering the EU but at a press conference with European President Martin Schulz today Orban said:

The problem is not a European problem, the problem is a German problem.

“Nobody wants to stay in Hungary, neither in Slovakia, nor Poland, nor Estonia. All want to go to Germany. Our job is just to register them.”

“We have clear cut regulations at the European level,” Orban continued. “German Chancellor (Angela Merkel) … said yesterday that nobody could leave Hungary without being registered,” he added.

“If the German chancellor insists that we register them, we will, it is a must.

Markus Schreiber / AP/PA Markus Schreiber / AP/PA / AP/PA

Speaking in a conference in Switzerland after Orban’s comments, Merkel said her country was doing what is “morally and legally required, nothing more and nothing less”.

Orban is one of a number of leaders refusing to accept the plan for compulsory quotas for asylum seekers. A razor wire fence has been built along his country’s border with Serbia in a bid to halt the influx and police have been clashing with people as they attempt to force their way across.

The UN has said most of the people travelling from the Middle East to Europe are refugees, though a small number are economic migrants.

Orban took part in talks with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker and with EU president Donald Tusk who warned earlier that divisions between member states threatens to scupper efforts to find a common response.

Junker is expected to unveil a plan to relocate 120,000 refugees from Italy, Greece and Hungary.

‘Greedy’

Meanwhile, a Ukip candidate has come under for reportedly tweeting that a young Syrian boy who tragically washed up on a Turkish beach died because his family were “greedy for the good life in Europe”.

Bucklitsch ran in Wimbledon for the right-wing party in the UK general election in May, getting more than 2,500 votes.

A Ukip press officer told The Huffington Post the issue “had been highlighted”, but refused to issue a comment as the party were still trying to get in touch with Bucklitsch.

Irish response

The Irish government has indicated Ireland will do more to help with the crisis, with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin saying this morning that he was sure we would take more than the allocated quota of 600 people.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny also told reporters that the government will approach the situation with “a flexible mind”.

Speaking about the pictures which emerged yesterday of the dead Syrian toddler, Kenny said:

The picture is absolutely shocking. Any parent would see that child in their own arms, the body of young boy, a life lost – that picture more than any I’ve seen of all the tragedies, may well shock political processes into taking action here, in terms of the streams of migrants and the causes that underlie that.

“I think past experience is that countries will not measure up if they are asked to do so purely voluntarily – it may well be that they are going to have to work out formula to say what numbers are appropriate for each individual country and then get on with having plan and strategy that can deal with that catastrophic human situation in proper and fitting fashion,” he said.

The Department of Justice said Ireland will “not be found wanting and as before will do the right and generous thing commensurate with our size and our capacity”.

We are open to accepting additional migrants and will participate fully in the range of responses needed to address this global humanitarian crisis.

Portugal also said today it was ready to welcome a greater number of migrants than the proposed 1,500. However British Prime Minister David Cameron is resisting growing pressure to accept a bigger share of Syrian refugees.

Though he said he had been deeply moved by images of the three-year-old Syrian boy, he asserted that the solution is not simply “about taking people, it’s got to be a comprehensive solution”.

- © AFP 2015 With reporting by Michelle Hennessy.

Read: Ireland will do more: ‘Dead bodies of young children on the shores of Europe — we can’t let that lie’>

Pictures: Desperate mother clings to her baby as police try to bring migrants to camps>

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    Mute Fintan O'Halloran
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:35 PM

    I’ve heard it all

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    Mute John Mitten
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:41 PM

    @Fintan O’Halloran: not much that can actually be added to your comment. Over the last few days the claims have been out of this world. We have a man winning because he was promoted. Then a women because she informed her new employer she was 9weeks pregnant 1 week in to employment and was let go. But the promoted one is the best. I pray these are all satire

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    Mute fintolini
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:03 PM

    @John Mitten: Most new roles have a probationary period, 6 months and its for both employee and employer to ensure the role fits etc.
    Surely one of the parties could have realised in that time period that something fundamental wasn’t right. A process that encompasses a PIP rarely leads to satisfaction on both sides, perhaps if they looked at the actual cause of the issue, they could have moved him to a more suitable role and allowed another person who was more suitable for the role a chance.

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    Mute Hans Vos
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:03 PM

    @John Mitten: one month in employment not one week.

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    Mute John Mitten
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:10 PM

    @Hans Vos: read the article again. It states 1 week.

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    Mute Hans Vos
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:30 PM

    @John Mitten: yea you’re right. Mea culpa!

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    Mute John Mitten
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:38 PM

    @Hans Vos: none of these should have got a cent. I really hope courts over rule them.

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    Mute Al Madzer
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:57 PM

    @John Mitten: I think it’s a recommended payout. It’s not enforceable and usually the complainant has to go to court to attempt to get the money.

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    Mute Bart
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    Aug 13th 2018, 9:08 AM

    @fintolini: ha ha ha, probation is for employee benefit, ha ha ha

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    Mute Gareth Cooney
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    Aug 13th 2018, 11:57 AM

    @John Mitten: plus the lady who sued for reading and responding to emails at home after work she was awarded €6k and appealed for more and won an additional €1.5k

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    Mute Jim
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    Aug 13th 2018, 2:36 PM

    @Fintan O’Halloran: muppet

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    Mute Stephen East
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:43 PM

    My god…..a legal article we can actually comment on

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    Mute John Mitten
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:48 PM

    @Stephen East: dreams do come true

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    Mute Shawn O'Ceallaghan
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    Aug 12th 2018, 11:16 PM

    @Stephen East: not really a legal article. Its a recommendation court basically. Bank can refuse to pay and it would mean fun at a civil court level

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    Mute Martin Flood
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:20 PM

    So he gets rewarded for being thick?

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    Mute G Fitz
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    Aug 12th 2018, 10:52 PM

    @Martin Flood: I don’t think he was thick, maybe lazy?

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    Aug 12th 2018, 11:22 PM

    @G Fitz:Treated a serious position as a plum job, sacked & still worked out a way of getting paid from a bank. This boy ain’t thick lads.

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    Mute Ciaran O Shea
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:41 PM

    You can sue for anything in Ireland!!

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    Mute John Smith
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:21 PM

    I thought this was Waterford Whispers for a moment…

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    Mute ciaran kehoe
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:47 PM

    Who actually appoints these people who are on these committees making crazy decisions like that one. He gets awarded because is not up to the job & won’t take his training seriously. He would probably also have also won a case if he had not been promoted. Who in their right mind would want to be an employer in this country when no matter what you do employee’s win cases like this. The people making these awards are the ones not up to the job

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    Mute Fat Face 99
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:43 PM

    ‘His representative said he should have been demoted’

    I’m guessing that would have been worth more than €6600 for him……….

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    Aug 12th 2018, 10:28 PM

    Well, I suppose he did work for a business that got 85billion from the taxpayer because it failed.

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    Mute Terry Cahill
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    Aug 13th 2018, 9:31 AM

    @Niall: I can’t see the name of the Bank anywhere … did I miss it ?

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    Mute Maria
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:58 PM

    Is it only me but why are their name’s never released? If I was an employer I would want to know the outcome of this case.

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    Mute Martin Flood
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    Aug 12th 2018, 10:12 PM

    @Maria: Exactly. And make sure he’s never promoted, just in case.

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    Mute Patrick O'Farrell
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    Aug 13th 2018, 12:37 AM

    I’d love to know which bank. I spent 15 yrs working with a large national bank and it was there I learned that AEDS (Arse Elbow Differentiation Syndrome) was rampant in management in Irish banks. If you played the game you got promoted but if you dared question you were as welcome as a fart in a spacesuit. Nothing has changed in the Irish banks, they reward incompetence and dishonesty and penalise honesty and engagement.

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    Mute Tracey Coleman
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    Aug 13th 2018, 7:48 PM

    @Patrick O’Farrell: Performance Improvement Plans are used in PTSB.

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    Mute James Noel Bradley
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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:39 PM

    Good for him

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    Mute Pixie McMullen
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    Aug 13th 2018, 12:39 AM

    I’ m just wondering who gave him a job with a significant pay rise, and does he know what he has let himself in for.

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    Mute Jun Stone
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    Aug 13th 2018, 5:59 AM

    @Pixie McMullen: maybe, just maybe the bank were unreasonable and there’s nothing wrong with the guy, after all he has a new job with more money, you wouldn’t know what was at play here.

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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:52 PM

    Why are these payments so low????

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    Aug 12th 2018, 8:59 PM

    @George McCarthy: As payments for stupidity go this is high.

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    Mute Gasher
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    Aug 13th 2018, 6:15 AM

    So basically a man applies for a job that he hasn’t got the skills/qualifications for and the sues his employer because HE was incompetent!!!!
    During the interview, I assume there was one, I would imagine he told the interviewers that he was the best thing since sliced bread.
    This country is heading down the drain.
    By the same token Leo could sue the state, saying that he was promoted to the top job by Enda, while Enda knew he was incompetent and hadn’t got the skills to carry out his duties. This would then set a precedent where Simon Harris, Paschal, Eoghan and a few more could sue the state to top up their giant pensions and golden handshakes.

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    Aug 12th 2018, 10:17 PM

    He’s obviously not so stupid after all, he’s just got over 6 grand for nothing.

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    Mute Rory J Leonard
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    Aug 12th 2018, 11:07 PM

    @James Darby:

    Sounds like this reasonable man quickly determined that the climb up the greasy pole to a more senior management role, and presumably additional pay, was not worth the effort and not all it’s cracked up to be, and decided to slide back down again to a quieter less stressful life. I can see the injustice here!

    He’s right to not let them take the pis.

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    Mute Gareth Cooney
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    Aug 13th 2018, 12:11 PM

    @Rory J Leonard: he’s gone on to fly a plane for Ryanair.

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    Mute Joseph Dempsey
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    Aug 13th 2018, 5:53 AM

    Interesting the Journal permitting comments on this case and yet not permitted on at least 10 other WRC cases over the past few weeks?

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    Mute Dave Slater
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    Aug 12th 2018, 9:57 PM

    The Peter Principle.

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    Mute Seán Kinsella
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    Aug 13th 2018, 7:11 AM

    It’s not work I’m after, it’s employment, your honour.

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    Mute Dan
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    Aug 12th 2018, 11:29 PM

    I should be making a fortune then…

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    Mute Gerard Heery
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    Aug 13th 2018, 7:44 AM

    If that’s the case all the government are entitled to it

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    Aug 13th 2018, 12:16 AM

    It is a legally binding decision by an individual WRC adjudicator but it can be appealed by either party to the Labour Court, a 3- person tribunal, whose decision is final

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