European Commission president proposes quotas to distribute 120000 refugees

More than 378,000 migrants have entered Europe this year, including over 256,000 crossing the sea to Greece and almost 120,000 braving the Mediterranean to reach Italy, according to the worldwide Organization for Migration. All member states except Britain, Denmark, and Ireland – which have opt-outs from union social policies – would be required to take part.

Last month Duda said Poland was already taking in refugees from Ukraine and that as many as 700,000 Ukrainians could seek shelter in Poland if the conflict in Ukraine worsened again.

A Hungarian TV camerawoman was sacked on Tuesday after footage appeared to show her kicking migrants, including children, as they ran away from a police line during disturbances at Roszke.

“We must leave as soon as possible, simply because living here, without tents, without blankets, is too hard “, one man tells the agency.

” ‘We want go!” Just as we would not leave any other European Union member state alone.

Juncker also proposed improving the legal system on EU migration and a review of the Dublin Regulation, which is the EU rule on refugees that says asylum seekers must register in the first EU member country in which they arrive. But Hungary’s system is overcrowded and failing.

Earlier on Wednesday, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said that Italy has repatriated close to 10,000 migrants so far this year and arrested 468 smugglers, forcing the people trafficking gangs to change route to the Balkans. “Sanitation is inadequate, and nights are cold”.

Most of those arriving there since the influx began on the weekend have chosen to continue on to Germany.

On Monday, France threw its weight behind the European Union plan by saying that it would take in 24,000 refugees this year, exactly the figure the new scheme calls for. And some of the nations themselves are playing off those perceptions.

There is no religion, there is no belief, there is no philosophy when it comes to refugees… European nations have been engaged in a pitched debate over how to handle the flood of refugees, and global pressure has mounted on the United States to step up its own response. “And many Danes have publicly admitted to helping drive – or even sail – some of them toward the Swedish border”. Completed in late August, the barricade’s fencing and coils of razor wire have so far failed to slow migrant arrivals, with their numbers surging over the past two weeks.

“Now is not the time to take fright, it is time for bold, determined action for the European Union“, Juncker said to applause from the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

The President of the European Commission has given details of his quota plan to resettle 160,000 refugees, expanding on several of the issues raised by Sweden and Germany’s leaders at their talks in Berlin on Tuesday.