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The Latest: Hungary says fence on Croatian border nearly done; Orban meets Austria leaders

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    Afghan refugee Asma Mohammed, 2, looks out a tent where she and her family spent the night at a collection point in the truck parking lot of the former border station on the Austrian side of the Hungarian-Austrian border near Nickelsdorf, Austria, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. Deeply divided European Union leaders held an emergency summit to seek long-term responses to the continent's ballooning crisis of refugees and migrants, a historic challenge EU President Donald Tusk said the bloc has failed dismally to meet. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (The Associated Press)

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    An Afghan refugee woman sits on the ground with her twin sons, Othman Abdulghafar, 2, right, and Irafan, sleeping by wrapped with a blanket to shelter from the morning cold after spending the night at a collection point in the truck parking lot of the former border station on the Austrian side of the Hungarian-Austrian border near Nickelsdorf, Austria, Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. Deeply divided European Union leaders held an emergency summit to seek long-term responses to the continent's ballooning crisis of refugees and migrants, a historic challenge EU President Donald Tusk said the bloc has failed dismally to meet. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen) (The Associated Press)

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    Migrants make their way towards the railway station in Zakany, 230 kms southwest of Budapest, Hungary, after they crossing the Croatian-Hungarian green border, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015. (Gyorgy Varga/MTI via AP) (The Associated Press)

BUDAPEST, Hungary – The latest developments as European governments struggle to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local:

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Hungary's government spokesman says the fence being built on the border with Croatia to stop migrants from entering is nearly finished.

Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said Friday on state radio that Hungary doesn't want to close the border, but wants "to protect the border of the European Union." He said the possibility of legal entry would be left open.

Hungary has also installed spools of razor wire near a border crossing with Slovenia, which like Hungary is part of the EU's Schengen zone of passport-free travel.

Kovacs said they are meant to "block direct detours" by migrants who may attempt to circumvent the fences on the Serbian and Croatian borders to reach Germany and other countries in Western Europe.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be in Vienna on Friday meeting with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and other officials to discuss the migration crisis.

Police said 8,104 migrants entered Hungary on Thursday, nearly all crossing from Croatia.