Refugee Crisis: EU ministers attempt to resolve quota row

We should tackle the refugee crisis by first thinking that we or our family could be one of them tying to escape violent death

We should tackle the refugee crisis by first thinking that we or our family could be one of them tying to escape violent death

Source: BBC

Croatia’s interior minister says there is ‘no possibility’ to stop people arriving

European Union ministers are to meet to try to resolve a dispute over how to relocate 120,000 asylum seekers who have recently arrived in Europe.

Some central European states have been resisting calls for EU members to accept mandatory quotas.

The migrants are part of more than a quarter of a million to have arrived in July and August alone. Germany says it expects up to a million this year.

Hungary has said European borders are under threat.

The arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants has created deep divisions within the EU.

Home affairs ministers meeting in Brussels on Tuesday will be hoping to forge a consensus ahead of an emergency meeting of EU leaders on Wednesday.

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