Refugee camp

More than 218,000 migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in October, AFP is quoting UNHCR data.

This is "a monthly record and more than during the whole of 2014," the United Nations refugee agency said on Monday.

Turkey has suggested a two-track plan to tackle the escalating international refugee crisis, including building entirely new cities for displaced people and founding an umbrella organization financed by all countries.

The number of refugees placed in Calais area has reached unprecedented levels, with about 6,000 living in terrible conditions in the French port and nearly two thousand more in rapidly expanding “jungles” in nearby towns, Telegraph reports.

The site is located 7 km from the city itself, on a former rubbish tip with no access to water or power.

Refugees are piling up on the border between Croatia and Serbia, where around 3,500 were located at the border crossing at Berkasovo-Bapska on Wednesday morning.

Croatian police are allowing refugees to enter periodically in groups of between 50 and 100, transporting them to the nearby camp in Opatovac, where about 4,207 refugees are located at the moment.

As Russia and the United States work on formulas as inclusive as possible to find a solution to the Syrian crisis, without letting the Islamist factions take over the entire country, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the European Union on Sept. 28 to do more to confront the migration crisis stemming from the four-year-old Syrian civil war.

European Union nations have agreed at a summit held in Brussels on Sept. 23 to give an additional 1.1 billion euros in aid to the United Nations' agencies dealing with the refugee crisis in the Syria-neighboring countries, pledging greater cooperation and dialogue with Turkey, which has become the main route of migrants trying to reach European countries.

Romania would have to pay about EUR 20.3 million to host 6,350 refugees for 10 months, as the European Commission requires, according to romania-insider.com.

The news outlet is citing Interior Ministry estimates showing that Romania will have to spend about EUR 1,120 on food and clothing for each refugee plus some EUR 1,085 per migrant for social security expenses.

Turkey is hosting over 250,000 Syrians at refugee camps coordinated by the Prime Ministry's Disaster and Emergency Management Authority, a senior governmental official has said.

SCANDALOUS TREATMENT Video shows refugees in Hungary "fed like animals" Video

Disturbing footage emerged of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with Serbia.

The images "showing families fed like animals in a pen" were shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the Roszke camp on Wednesday.

AFP is reporting that "disturbing footage emerged of the way migrants are being treated inside Hungary's main refugee camp on the border with Serbia."

The images "showing families fed like animals in a pen" were shot secretly by an Austrian volunteer who visited the Roszke camp on Wednesday, according to the agency.