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The southern German state of Bavaria expects 10,000 refugees and migrants to arrive on Monday, after about 20,000 arrived over the weekend. As more reach Greece, Britain pledges to take 20,000 Syrians from refugee camps.People fleeing war and poverty in Syria and other stricken nations arrived by the trainload in Munich on Monday, having made the journey through western Balkan nations to Hungary and then Austria.
The president of the Upper Bavaria region, which includes Munich, Christoph Hillenbrand, estimated the new arrivals on Monday would number "10,000 plus."
McClatchy
IZMIR, TURKEY After facing Syrian government barrel bombs, the repression of Islamic State extremists and their effective expulsion from Lebanon, Syrian refugees trying to reach Europe by sea now confront a new nemesis – the Greek Coast guard, which, they say, is disabling their small craft and setting them adrift in the Aegean Sea.Refugees speak of repeated instances in Greek waters where Greek forces fire guns in the air, shine bright spotlights on their beleaguered boats, and order them to jettison their fuel supplies. Then they move their fast patrol boats alongside and take off at top speed, creating a stern wave that forces the dinghy back to Turkish waters.
Al Jazeera America
UDAPEST, Hungary — Volunteers from Austria and Germany have collected hundreds of Syrians from Hungary, driving them out of the country in defiance of possible arrest and criminal gangs that charge huge sums to smuggle refugees to Western Europe.The convoy of more than 150 cars crossed safely back into Austria early Monday morning, as officials there sought a return to normal border and asylum procedures after a weekend in which more than 12,000 refugees arrived from Hungary.
Most continued to Germany, which on Monday announced plans to spend 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) next year to help refugees, while Hungary’s leader said he would maintain the tough line on the crisis that has made his country the “black sheep” of the European Union.
Reuters
Struggling to cope with record numbers of asylum seekers, Germany told its European partners on Monday they too must take in more refugees, as police in Hungary used pepper spray on desperate migrants who broke out of a reception center at the border.Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking after a weekend in which 20,000 migrants entered Germany from Hungary by train, bus and on foot, described the influx as "breathtaking" and tried to reassure German citizens that the crisis was manageable.
"I am happy that Germany has become a country that many people outside of Germany now associate with hope," she said at a news conference in Berlin.
But she and her vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, coupled their message of optimism with a warning to European Union partners who have resisted a push from Berlin, Paris and Brussels to agree quotas for refugees flowing in mainly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Guardian
David Cameron’s limited promise of only 4,000 places a year for Syrian refugees provides a glimpse of the impotence of Britain’s future role in world affairs outside the EU.His Commons promise to take 20,000 Syrian refugees over the next five years is at the bottom end of expectations. It stands in sharp contrast to the French pledge of 24,000 places over the next two years. As the Labour MP and father of the house, Gerald Kaufman, angrily pointed out: “The Germans took in 10,000 refugees in one day.”
Cameron has deliberately spurned taking part in a much bigger EU scheme to resettle those in the camps in countries neighbouring Syria. He has also rejected playing any part in the expected EU request this week to relocate the estimated 160,000 refugees who have made it across the Mediterranean to Italy and Greece or through the Balkans to Hungary.