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Country by country Europe's leaders are now pledging to do more to help refugees as a humanitarian crisis unfolds on their borders.
And the additional refugees will be taken in. We want to work with NGOs and take them directly from refugee camps.
It has been suggested that we in Scotland should ready ourselves now to accept 1,000 refugees and I certainly believe that we should do so not as a cap or a limit but as a starting point.
Europe cannot in any way refuse to grant asylum to those persons who have a right to it under international law. We need to welcome people, we need to protect people who are persecuted in their countries and we believe that this is a moral duty of every single person in Europe.
They appear to have been spurred into action by a public outcry after horrific images were published in recent days of one Syrian child in particular who drowned along with his brother and mother trying to reach Europe. The UN has called on European countries to accept up to 200,000 refugees fleeing the fighting in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. But some nations are resisting any kind of quota system with the prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, saying solidarity measures must be voluntary. Germany has said it's preparing to accept 800,000 migrants this year and is pressing other EU nations to accept many more as well. | 
发表于 2016-9-6 17:04:05