We need more Europe in our asylum policy. We need more Union in our refugee policy,” says the Commission president.
Germany could take up to 500,000 asylum-seekers a year for the next few years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.
The UK will provide resettlement to “thousands more Syrian refugees”, David Cameron has announced.
Prime Minister David Cameron has ignored calls from across the continent for the UK to do its part and help house a greater proportion of the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have made their way into Europe in recent months.
Thousands of migrants and refugees have arrived in mainland Greece, as European leaders squabble over how to defuse growing crisis.