Faced with overwhelming refugee numbers on Europe's southern borders and an obvious lack of resources to tackle the problem, the European Commission president has taken the unprecedented step of writing to governments to ask them to do more to help.
President Jose Manuel Barroso on Thursday (7 September) wrote to EU leaders to say that "it is of the utmost importance that all member States of the union work together in a spirit of solidarity."
He said it is a European problem that...
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