European leaders split on fate of refugees

German chancellor Angela Merkel, reflecting on “a moving, in some parts breathtaking, weekend behind us,” said that all EU countries could help to accommodate the human tide from the Middle East and Africa.

French president Francois Hollande said his country would welcome 24,000 refugees, and that he and Merkel had agreed on a mechanism to spread the migrant load across Europe.

However, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban said he wasn’t prepared to pitch in and questioned how any EU quota system for migrants could work.