In this photo taken on Oct. 11, 2016, a border guard and a police dog inspect a truck in Calafat, Romania. Romania has invested in border control to prevent migrants illegally passing through the country on their way to Western Europe, and the efforts seem to be working. Migrants have proved ingenious in their sometimes life-threatening attempts to illegally enter Romania. They hide under trucks, take the short but perilous journey across the Danube or simply walk under cover of darkness from Serbia into Romania. (AP Photo/Olimpiu Gheorghiu)

LONDON - The Latest on Europe's response to massive influx of asylum-seekers and migrants (all times local):

10:00 p.m.

Hungary's prime minister has likened his country's closure of its borders to migrants last year to Hungary's decision to allow people trapped behind the Iron Curtain to leave the country a generation ago.

Hungary's decision in 1989 to open its frontier with Austria allowed hundreds of East Germans to escape to the West against the wishes of their Communist government.

Viktor Orban told the Bavarian state Parliament late Monday that "in 1989 we acted for the freedom of Europe and now we're protecting this freedom."

Orban added that Hungary had only done its "duty."

The closure of Hungary's borders in the summer of 2015 left tens of thousands of migrants stranded on their way through the Balkans until Germany allowed them to enter its territory.

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11:30 a.m.

Hungary's prime minister says his proposed constitutional amendment against any future efforts by the European Union to relocate refugees is about the rights of individual EU nations to oppose an "empire directed by Brussels."

Prime Minister Viktor Orban, speaking Monday at the opening of the parliamentary debate of the amendment, said each country has the right to decide its own fate while others want to replace democratic decision-making with "a faceless bureaucratic directorate."

An Oct. 2 referendum was invalid because of low turnout, but 98 per cent of participating voters supported the government's opposition to mandatory quotas.

The far-right Jobbik party supports the amendment "because multiculturalism does not work," while the Socialists, the largest leftist opposition group, said they would boycott the process.

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10:25 a.m.

Fourteen children who have been living in a border refugee camp in northern France are due to arrive in Britain to be reunited with their families.

They are the first of dozens of children from the Calais camp to be resettled in the U.K. this week.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says the children will register at a government building in south London Monday before being reunited with relatives at local churches.

Under pressure from charities, religious leaders and French authorities, Britain has agreed to accept scores of children from Calais.

Thousands of migrants fleeing war and hardship have reached the English Channel port town in the hope of making it to Britain.

France says it will soon close the slum-like camp known as the "jungle" where many live.

News from © The Associated Press, 2016