Hungary

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Sept. 8 the EU executive would offer better protection for refugees but also improve its frontier defences and deport more illegal migrants.

Gabriela Yordanova, 12, will sing for Bulgaria at the Junior Eurovision song contest this November.

Yordanova was picked on Tuesday evening by both the jury and viewers who voted by sending text messages.

Bulgaria came second in last year's junior contest, but the winner Italy declined to host the 2015 edition and Sofia was offered the opportunity to organize it.

The United Nations refugee agency on Tuesday called on Hungary to improve the registration process and reception conditions for asylum-seekers.

It also called on Hungarian authorities to implement the recently adopted national legislation in accordance with the EU and international law and to differentiate those in need of international protection from those who are not in need.

The European Commission said on Tuesday it has allocated EUR 4M in emergency assistance to Hungary to help the country cope with the increased migrant influx across its border with Serbia.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) head of communications Melissa Fleming said Europe must guarantee the relocation of Syrian refugees as a record number are arriving at FYROM, Greece and neighboring countries. 7,000 refugees reached FYROM yesterday, Fleming said, adding that nearly 30,000 were gathered on Greek islands including, 20,000 on Mytilene.

The European Commission has set new national quotas for refugees, according to which Germany will take in 40,000, and France 30,000 people.

This is the number of refugees that will be accepted by these two countries out of the 160,000 asylum seekers that will be transferred from Italy, Greece, and Hungary, the El Pais daily said in learned in Brussels on Monday.

Fresh clashes erupted between police and migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sept.7 night, which authorities said was "on the verge of explosion," as Britain and France pledged to accept tens of thousands more refugees from the record influx.

Authorities postponed the extradition of Tsvetan Tsvetanov, one of the four Bulgarians arrested over the alleged trafficking of the 71 migrants, whose dead bodies were found in an abandoned truck in Austria at the end of August.

Traffic on the border crossing of Horgos between Serbia and Hungary was closed on Tuesday morning on the Hungarian side.

Travelers therefore must use other crossings, such as Kelebija and Backi Breg, the Automobile and Motorcycle Association of Serbia (AMSS) has announced.

There is a pointless blame-game going on over Syria, with each country accusing someone else for the way things have gone there. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an continued playing his part in an interview on CNN International last week, blaming the West again.