Migrant crisis: Influx will change Germany, says Merkel

Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the "breathtaking" flow of migrants into Germany will "occupy and change" the country in the coming years.

She said Germany would speed up asylum procedures and build extra housing, but called on other EU states to help.
French President Francois Hollande said quotas for EU countries to relocate 120,000 migrants were being planned and that France would take 24,000. Meanwhile, the flow of migrants across Europe shows no sign of easing.
On Monday, large numbers of people were reported to be streaming into Hungary across its southern border with Serbia.


In other developments:

• The UK will accept up to 20,000 refugees from Syria over the next five years, David Cameron has told MPs
• Greece has requested emergency EU assistance to deal with migrants arriving from Turkey
• Spanish media say police fired rubber bullets at migrants in a detention centre in Valencia after about 50 tried to escape
• Police in Macedonia scuffled with thousands of migrants trying to cross into the country from Greece
• Hundreds of migrants broke through Hungarian police lines on the border with Serbia and are marching towards Budapest
• UN chief Ban Ki-moon, in an interview with the Guardian, said the UN Security Council was failing Syria because it was divided on the issue.