As Europe struggles to cope with the influx of lakhs and lakhs of migrants, here are the latest developments on the crisis
According to Austrian Chancellor Wenner Faymann, they have accommodated “more than 12,000 people in an acute situation. In Munich alone, over 17,000 migrants arrived over the weekend, said the police. .
On Monday, Germany announced that it will spend Euros 6 billion (Rs 45,000 crore) to support migrants.
She said Germany "is of course willing to accept more refugees," but called on other European countries to take more in.
Soon after, French President Francois Hollande said his country will open its doors to 24,000 refugees.
“Taking in those fleeing war is a duty that France is ready to shoulder,” he said adding that Merkel and he had agreed upon a mechanism to disturb refugees across the continent, reports Associated Press.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, "As long as we can't defend Europe's outer borders, it is not worth talking about how many people we can take in".
Those migrants trying to reaching Germany were seeking a "German life" not physical safety, adding that if the stream continued it would endanger Europe's "Christian welfare states".
Senior government sources told The Sunday Times that Prime Minister David Cameron has instructed his aides to draw up plans to expand the vulnerable persons’ relocation programme under which Britain has taken 216 Syrians from refugee camps.
While Merkel is being hailed as a hero, critics have accused her of creating a dangerous example by opening borders.
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