EU unveils 'bold' plan to take 160,000 refugees

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Source: Yahoo! News / AFP

Strasbourg (France) (AFP) - The EU unveiled plans Wednesday to take 160,000 refugees from overstretched border states, as the United States said it would accept more Syrians to ease the pressure from the worst migration crisis since World War II.

As fresh unrest in Hungary underscored the scale of the problem, Germany pushed Europe to go further and agree long-term binding quotas with no limits on actual numbers to deal with a surge of asylum-seekers.

With Greece, Hungary and Italy struggling to cope, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker urged the continent to look to its history, ignore populist parties and take decisive action.

"Now is not the time to take fright, it is time for bold, determined action for the European Union," Juncker said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/eu-unveils-bold-migrant-crisis-plan-074509169.html

[Nitram]

1. That's just the tip of an enormous iceberg.

There are millions in Syria and Iraq who will be joining them once the floodgates open.

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2. 160,000