The European Union is looking for member states to contribute military ships and planes for an international operation in the Mediterranean to counter human trafficking.

If the program is approved, the ships could seize and divert vessels carrying no national flags in international waters but not in a nation's territorial waters. The EU would still need to set up rules of engagement to see whether lethal force could be used to stop smugglers.

The approval process could still take several weeks.

The EU said Monday it had finished the analysis needed for such an operation.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told police bound for the Serbian border that they must "defend Hungary and Europe" and "protect our way of life."

In a ceremony Monday at Budapest's grandiose Heroes Square, where statues honor the founding fathers of Hungary, Orban told more than 800 officers that new laws on Tuesday would allow them to arrest and charge those who get through the country's new border fence with criminal offenses that can end in prison or deportation.

Orban said he hoped the new measures would deter foreigners from traveling into Hungary. He says "Hungary is a country with a thousand-year-old Christian culture. We Hungarians don't want the worldwide movement of people to change Hungary."

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Poland's prime minister says the European Union's outside borders must be strictly controlled in the face of a huge surge of immigrants.

Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz also said Monday that Poland would restore its own border controls if it saw any outside threats. She did not elaborate.

The EU's interior ministers are discussing how to share 160,000 asylum seekers among the bloc's 28 nations at a meeting Monday in Brussels.

Kopacz said Poland will not agree to the refugee quota — some 12,000 people — that the EU wants it to accept. She says "we will accept the number of refugees that we can afford, not one more, not one less."

Poland says it can handle over 2,000 refugees.

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Austria's interior minister says the country will follow Germany in introducing border controls to manage the flow of people coming in from Hungary.

Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner said the Alpine nation "will proceed as Germany does." Speaking in Brussels, she said the checks would be introduced "as soon as possible" on the Austrian-Hungarian border.

Tens of thousands of people fleeing their homelands are trekking now through Europe by train, bus or foot. Those seeking to go to Germany usually go through Hungary and Austria first.

Germany over the weekend introduced border checks to deal with Europe's immigration emergency and Slovakia made a similar announcement Monday.