Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.<\/p>\n
Germany expects more than 800,000 asylum-seekers in 2015 alone – four times the 2014 figure.<\/p>\n
Mr Gabriel reiterated that other EU states should share the burden.<\/p>\n
The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, says a record 7,000 Syrian migrants arrived in Macedonia alone on Monday and 30,000 were on Greek islands.<\/p>\n
The migrants, mainly Syrians, are engaged in a long trek which takes them from Turkey, across the sea to Greece, through Macedonia and Serbia, and then to Hungary from where they aim to reach Austria and Germany.<\/p>\n
The migrant influx has unsettled European governments and prompted diverse responses. Hungary’s conservative leadership is building a border fence to try to keep them out, but German politicians have expressed pride in crowds who welcomed new arrivals.<\/p>\n
A Greek minister said on Monday that the island of Lesbos, which sits off the Turkish coast, was “on the verge of an explosion” due to a build-up of 20,000 migrants.<\/p>\n
The government and UNHCR have brought in extra staff and ships to process them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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