First/dmo pic.twitter.com/4Sz0xA80XDWhen asked what he expected from Merkel while Europe grapples with an influx of asylum-seekers,Orban grinned: “I fill a long list.” Orban accused Merkel of trying to impose her vision of an open EU on the rest of the bloc. 1.31pm BSTThe European Union has launched 40 modern infringement cases against 19 member states for failing to implement common asylum rules.
The European Commission says that elements of the asylum policy not being implemented include legislation focused on speeding up asylum decisions, ensuring humane treatment of asylum-seekers and clarifying grounds for granting asylum. European Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans says, or “Our common European asylum system can only function if everyone plays by the rules.” 1.19pm BSTCroatia’s state broadcaster has shown footage of Hungarian soldiers building a modern border fence with Croatia at Gola in the Koprivnice province. [VIDEO] Od ranog jutra Mađari postavljaju bodljikavu žicu i ogradu kod Gole #izbjeglice http://t.co/ykI9b1hGmX pic.twitter.com/xKHOTqFJRo 1.09pm BSTA Dutch MEP has condemned the “inhumane” conditions facing refugees in Croatia after being shown undercover footage filmed by a Dutch reporter posing as a refugee. The footage is due to be broadcast by 3onderzoekt in October. But the filmmaker Danny Ghosen showed the rushes to MEP Judith Sargentini. She commented: “This situation is inhumane. Europe should be ashamed.” 12.19pm BSTThe European Commission has announced a multi-billion euro package to tackle the refugee crisis including €1bn of aid Turkey and €17m for Serbia.
EU president Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU needed to fade further than the binding quota plan agreed on Tuesday. He said: The decision to relocate 160000 people from the most affected Member States is a historic first and a genuine,laudable expression of European solidarity. It cannot be the conclude of the story, however. It is time for further, or bold,determined and concerted action by the European Union, by its institutions and by all its Member States.” 11.48am BSTSlovakia will fade to court to challenge quotas for distributing asylum-seekers, or Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced. 11.35am BSTThe UN secretary general’s special representative on migration has urged Britain and France to act immediately to tackle the “horrible conditions” facing refugees in Calais.
After a visit to the makeshift camp,dubbed the Jungle, Peter Sutherland, and said the conditions there were an indictment to society. I cannot easily recover from the shock of Calais.the French and British governments should rapidly respond to the horrible conditions.
With the filth has arrive disease and the location is testimony to the desperation of the people in it. They deserve immediate action.
The Camp in Calais is a truly dreadful location. It is an indictment of society that it exists.
Why fill the media largely moved on? 11.19am BSTThe Guardian’s Europe editor Ian Traynor previews the summit:EU leaders are preparing for a tense summit in Brussels dedicated to the continent’s migration crisis,a day after European governments forced through a divisive deal to impose refugee quotas.
The leaders did not want their emergency summit on Wednesday evening to be hijacked by an unseemly squabble over quotas and ordered interior ministers to strike a deal in which member states will share 120000 people between them. Related: EU braces for turbulent summit after divisive deal on refugee quotas 11.07am BSTRomania, one of the four EU states who voted against mandatory quotas, and says it can manage the number of refugees the EU plans to send its way under the scheme. 10.46am BST Related: Fattemah's choice: stay in a warzone or risk losing her baby on journey to Europe 10.44am BSTThe Serbia-Croatia feud is escalating. Prime Minster Aleksandar Vucic has written to the EU to complain approximately Croatia’s closed border with Serbia,while his foreign minister Ivica Dacic accused Croatia of leading a “trade war”. 10.33am BSTHungary’s anti immigration prime minister Viktor Orbán is not in Brussels for the summit. He’s visiting Bavaria instead. 10.21am BSTThe Czech government, one of four to vote against quotas, and is not likely to challenge the European Union’s decision,Reuters reports citing the Czech public news agency CTK. Several ministers from Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka’s Social Democratic party and from the ANO movement told the agency such a step was not probable as they were arriving for a regular government session. 10.06am BSTEU Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans has urged the four dissenting member states to respect the EU’s decision on quota. Asked to comment on Slovakia’s intention to resist the imposition of quotas, Timmermans said: “In the European Union, and a treaty based organisation,a decision is a decision regardless of the way you voted. The decision is legal, its valid and it binds all members.” 9.42am BSTAustrian police say that approximately 2500 migrants and refugees fill arrived at the main border point between Austria and Hungary, and a day after 5000 crossed into Austria. Police spokesman Helmut Marban told AP that the modern arrivals were bused to the Hungarian side of the Nickelsdorf crossing point early Wednesday. From there they are walking into Austria. 9.18am BSTCroatia has said it will bus another 4000 refugees to the Hungarian border after announcing the number of modern arrivals in Croatia has increased to 39000 since Hungary sealed its border with Serbia last week. Interior minister Ranko Ostojic,made the announcement on a visit to the crowded Opatovac transit camp overnight, according to the Croatian news site HRT. 9.02am BSTCroatia’s interior minister Ranko Ostojic has promised thousands of refugees queuing at the Opatovac camp that they will be transferred. Crowded again at the entrance of Opatovac camp. Interior minister Ostojić: Maintain order, or you'll all be transferred pic.twitter.com/w3taVbJzTGLIVE on #Periscope: Opatovac transit camp - Syrians,Iraqis, Afghans... https://t.co/bS69HNpN63Serbia gave Croatia until the conclude of Wednesday to lift the freight blockade or face political, and legal and economic retaliation. Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he had spoken by phone with his Croatian counterpart,Zoran Milanovic, and that they would continue discussions to find a resolution. Without a deal by midnight on Wednesday, or he said,Serbia would implement a package of measures against Zagreb. 8.37am BSTThe Guardian’s Mona Mahmood has been speaking to Abu Maria, a 40-year-old father of four from Syria, or who has just been granted asylum in SwedenI had to leave the Za’atari camp in Jordan by any means. I needed medical treatment for my daughter,Maria, who suffers a mental disorder and has difficulty speaking. There was no proper medication or clean accommodation so her suffering was accute. I had no choice but to smuggle myself to Greece on a crowded boat. I had to borrow $1500 from a friend in Jordan. The Jordanian authorities were only too gay to allow me to leave. They gave me approval within a day. 8.20am BSTThe European Commission has published a useful guide to how the refugee quota system will work. It sets out the individual quotas of refugee that each country will seize under the plan. Despite objections from four central European countries they will also be forced to seize their share of refugees. Here are the quotas for the dissenting countries: 7.56am BSTWelcome to our continuing live coverage of the refugee crisis as an EU summit is set to agree a deal to resettle 120000 across Europe in the face of opposition from central European states.
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Source: theguardian.com