REFUGEE CRISIS

“Not helping is not an option for us," President Sauli Niinistö told the United Nations.

The move by German conservatives, to accommodate refugees, comes as support for Angela Merkel's party drops to a one-year low.

Ireland's president urged unity among European Union nations in a speech at New York University Law School.

"You can’t work together; you can’t put together victims and their killers," the French president said.

No arrests were made in the brawl involving hundreds at a shelter in Calden, which began with a fight over food.

Many Greeks aren't happy with the flood of refugees arriving on their shores, but some are using the new arrivals to their advantage.

The last time refugee camps were prevalent in Europe was after World War II. Seventy years later they have returned, the result of the mass exodus from Syria.

Protesters, including one dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member, threw stones and fireworks at a bus carrying refugee families.

The country has struggled to integrate a huge refugee population that is unlikely to go home anytime soon, and Syrians are growing worried about their future there.

The move comes after a series of border measures were taken by the two nations amid flaring tensions over refugee movement.

"The measures we have agreed today will not end the crisis. But they are all necessary steps in the right direction."

European Union officials will provide emergency funding for the refugee crisis, but then it's up to national leaders to make tough financial decisions.

Refugees are landing by the thousands on the Greek island, and local volunteers are saving scores from certain death.

Hungary, Romania, Slovakia and the Czech Republic continue to oppose the quota plan, which was approved in a rare majority vote Tuesday.

European leaders took a step forward in voting to redistribute 120,000 refugees despite objections from four countries.

Alienated by the right-wing government and widespread unemployment, young Hungarians are politically disengaged, even in the face of the refugee crisis.

Germany’s migration director reportedly reached an agreement with the firm to manage the influx of refugees.

While US lawmakers crunch numbers, resettlement agencies said they can handle an increase in arrivals.

As thousands of refugees land on the Greek island, the new arrivals sometimes face resentment from locals.

“Let us not forget, we are an aging continent in demographic decline."

Croatia's government has struggled to respond to the crisis, which has seen 29,000 refugees and economic migrants enter the country since last week.