Member states of the Council of Europe

Hungarian authorities were locked in a stand-off with migrants who left Budapest?s main train station on foot for Austria, while the U.K. said it would take thousands more Syrian refugees as the crisis gripping Europe mounted.

Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic has said that although it is not an EU member country, Serbia is ready to take in a number of migrants.

A memorandum of cooperation on refugees and migrants was signed on Friday in Ohrid, Macedonia by ministers from Macedonia, Austria, Serbia and Hungary.

Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov represented Macedonia, Johanna Mikl-Leitner siged for Austria, Nebojsha Stefanovic for Serbia and Deputy Interior Minister Krisztina Berta for Hungary.

With fighter jets roaring overhead, NATO has inaugurated a military center in the Lithuanian capital amid growing regional concerns over Russia's military presence, sparked by the fighting in Ukraine.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has spoken on the phone with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic about the refugee crisis.

Orban's press service said on Thursday that the two prime ministers "spoke about the crisis situation caused by mass migration on the borders of Serbia and Macedonia."

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic and his Albanian counterpart Edi Rama pledged to work together to establish a cross-Balkans youth cooperation office aimed at improving strained relations between countries in the region.

The Turkish government has again raised the issue of the sea borders in the Aegean, disputing the current status in the Aegean, via a statement released by its foreign ministry representative.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama agreed on a number of issues as they took part in a television program.

Their stands remained distant only with regard to Kosovo, Tanjug said in its report about the broadcast, called "Okruzenje".

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has said that border controls Austria has introduced in order to stop the wave of migrants will "unequivocally affect Serbia, too."

After the Western Balkans summit, which took place in Vienna on August 27, it has been announced that European institutions will grant around 200 million euro for 10 transport and energy infrastructure projects in six Western Balkans countries.