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The shadow home secretary said that within 24 hours of her asking councils in England, Scotland and Wales asking if they would be prepared to help in providing places for refugees, more than 40 had written back offering support.

Across Germany at the weekend, banners were hoisted at Bundesliga football matches that said simply “Welcome Refugees”. Cameron said specific details of the resettlement plan would be announced next week. Non-EU nations akin to Serbia and Macedonia have been shuttling...

Once across, the Hungarian police shepherd them toward a roadside meeting point beside the maize fields, where buses roll up to take them to a nearby registration centre, on the next short leg of their tortuous road north.

It manifests itself not just through donations, but also through a number of private initiatives aimed at providing support to people when they arrive in Germany in a direct and down-to-earth manner.

But Giro-Szasz says that Germany has shown a more permissive stance towards illegal immigrants arriving from Syria, adding that the news has “boosted hopes” among migrants.

On Tuesday, a suspected arson attack destroyed a school sports hall in the town of Nauen, west of Berlin, that was intended as a temporary shelter for refugees.

It wasn’t until Monday, after #Merkelschweigt – translated roughly as “Merkel stays silent” – became the top trending hashtag on Twitter in Germany, that the chancellor condemned the attacks through a spokesman.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was heckled on Wednesday while visiting a refugee centre, which has been the target of violence by neo-Nazi groups, in the eastern village of Heidenau, media reported.

The vote’s result also seemed to dispel any speculation that Chancellor Angela Merkel would have difficulty getting her conservative bloc to sign on.

With the increasing number of asylum-seekers and migrants arriving in the region, UNHCR appealed to all the governments involved to make sure that they handle the situation with sensitivity and abide by their global obligations.

At the Greece-FYR Macedonia border itself – reported calm after chaotic scenes late last week – people are now crossing in groups of up to 300-400 and then travelling onwards by train or bus to Serbia.

In Austria, police said 37 people were injured, seven seriously, when two vans packed with as many as 90 migrants collided yesterday near the Hungarian border.

The bill on the rescue deal passed just in time for Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos to head to Brussels to meet his counterparts from the 19-country currency union in the hope of getting their seal of approval as well.

The bailout was in “the interests of Greece and Europe”, Schaeuble told the Bundestag.

Gordon Strachan has indicated Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths will be in his next Scotland squad.