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Bulgaria pleaded with Croatia on Friday to immediately open the Bajakovo crossing at the border with Serbia to Bulgarian-registered motor vehicles or redirect them to other operating checkpoints.

An emergency summit by European Union leaders is also scheduled for Wednesday.

Eastern European ministers are due to gather to once again voice their opposition to compulsory migrant quotas, as countries creaking under the strain of a steady stream of refugees struggle to agree on common action.

It said that 66,000 asylum-seekers will be relocated from Greece and Italy, and 54,000 more in a year’s time. The Romanian news agency reported the country would have to take an extra 2,475 refugees. “They have to stay in the country they were distributed to”,...

The German government has agreed to give its 16 states a total of around 4 billion euros next year to help them deal with the increased number of migrants and refugees who have entered the country.

Since the fighting broke out in 2011, more than four million Syrians have fled their homeland, according to the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.

Rather than claiming asylum in the first safe European Union country they reach, most head on toward wealthy northern states.

The policy change, which Kerry said would result in the Obama administration’s accepting 85,000 refugees next year – up from 70,000 – rising to 100,000 in 2017, comes as the refugee crisis in Europe threatens to explode into outright chaos.

Anadolu said the refugees would be returned to the provinces where they registered.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his “personal initiative” would see “generous” European Union quotas to bring in refugees from crisis-hit regions and spread them around the continent.

Czech personalities linked to the November 1989 overthrow of the communist regime have called on the government, in a letter released to CTK, to meet its European commitments and reassess its “negativist” approach to the redistribution of refugees among EU members....

Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary – the last of which has been strongly chided for its treatment of incoming refugees – all voted against the proposal.

A migration expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Jean-Christophe Dumont, said that it’s costlier up front to integrate refugees than other categories of immigrants, because they often need language and vocational training as well as...

Their nationalities were not immediately known.

It also urged the government to ensure the provision of monetary funds and a legal framework for the country to defend its border, using all possible means.