British Prime Minister, David Cameron arriving in Brussels for crunch talks on the refugee crisis said Britain is to spend another £100 million helping Syrian refugees trapped in camps around the Middle East. The government has agreed to take 20,000 refugees directly from camps over the next five years.
Arriving in Brussels, Mr Cameron said: ‘We must make sure that people in refugee camps are properly fed, and looked after, not least to help them but also to stop people wanting to make or thinking of making this very, very difficult and very dangerous journey to Europe.’ EU leaders were meeting the day after interior ministers agreed a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees currently in Italy, Greece and Hungary among the member states. The scheme provoked a furious row with four former Eastern bloc states – Slovakia, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic – voting against while Finland abstained. The EU leaders are also expected to promise billions of euros in new funding for Syrian refugees.
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