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1.19pm BST
Croatia’s state broadcaster has shown footage of Hungarian soldiers building a new border fence with Croatia at Gola in the Koprivnice province.
[VIDEO] Od ranog jutra Mađari postavljaju bodljikavu žicu i ogradu kod Gole #izbjeglice http://t.co/ykI9b1hGmX pic.twitter.com/xKHOTqFJRo
1.09pm BST
A Dutch MEP has condemned the “inhumane” conditions facing refugees in Croatia after being shown undercover footage filmed by a Dutch reporter posing as a refugee.
The footage is due to be broadcast by 3onderzoekt in October. But the filmmaker Danny Ghosen showed the rushes to MEP Judith Sargentini. She commented: “This situation is inhumane. Europe should be ashamed.”
12.19pm BST
The European Commission has announced a multi-billion euro package to tackle the refugee crisis including €1bn of aid Turkey and €17m for Serbia.
EU president Jean-Claude Juncker said the EU needed to go further than the binding quota plan agreed on Tuesday. He said: “The decision to relocate 160,000 people from the most affected Member States is a historic first and a genuine, laudable expression of European solidarity. It cannot be the end of the story, however. It is time for further, bold, determined and concerted action by the European Union, by its institutions and by all its Member States.”
11.48am BST
Slovakia will go to court to challenge quotas for distributing asylum-seekers, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced.
11.35am BST
The UN secretary general’s special representative on migration has urged Britain and France to act immediately to tackle the “horrible conditions” facing refugees in Calais.
After a visit to the makeshift camp, dubbed the Jungle, Peter Sutherland, said the conditions there were an indictment to society.
I cannot easily recover from the shock of Calais.the French and British governments should rapidly respond to the horrible conditions.
With the filth has come disease and the place is testimony to the desperation of the people in it. They deserve immediate action.
The Camp in Calais is a truly dreadful place. It is an indictment of society that it exists.Why have the media largely moved on?
11.19am BST
The Guardian’s Europe editor Ian Traynor previews the summit:
EU leaders are preparing for a tense summit in Brussels dedicated to the continent’s migration crisis, a day after European governments forced through a divisive deal to impose refugee quotas.
The leaders did not want their emergency summit on Wednesday evening to be hijacked by an unseemly squabble over quotas and ordered interior ministers to strike a deal in which member states will share 120,000 people between them.
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11.07am BST
Romania, one of the four EU states who voted against mandatory quotas, says it can manage the number of refugees the EU plans to send its way under the scheme.
10.46am BST
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10.44am BST
The Serbia-Croatia feud is escalating. Prime Minster Aleksandar Vucic has written to the EU to complain about Croatia’s closed border with Serbia, while his foreign minister Ivica Dacic accused Croatia of leading a “trade war”.
10.33am BST
Hungary’s anti immigration prime minister Viktor Orbán is not in Brussels for the summit. He’s visiting Bavaria instead.
10.21am BST
The Czech government, one of four to vote against quotas, is not likely to challenge the European Union’s decision, Reuters reports citing the Czech public news agency CTK.
Several ministers from Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka’s Social Democratic party and from the ANO movement told the agency such a step was not probable as they were arriving for a regular government session.
10.06am BST
EU Commission vice-president Frans Timmermans has urged the four dissenting member states to respect the EU’s decision on quota. Asked to comment on Slovakia’s intention to resist the imposition of quotas, Timmermans said: “In the European Union, a treaty based organisation, a decision is a decision regardless of the way you voted. The decision is legal, it’s valid and it binds all members.”
9.42am BST
Austrian police say that about 2,500 migrants and refugees have arrived at the main border point between Austria and Hungary, a day after 5,000 crossed into Austria.
Police spokesman Helmut Marban told AP that the new arrivals were bused to the Hungarian side of the Nickelsdorf crossing point early Wednesday. From there they are walking into Austria.
9.18am BST
Croatia has said it will bus another 4,000 refugees to the Hungarian border after announcing the number of new arrivals in Croatia has increased to 39,000 since Hungary sealed its border with Serbia last week.
Interior minister Ranko Ostojic, made the announcement on a visit to the crowded Opatovac transit camp overnight, according to the Croatian news site HRT.
9.02am BST
Croatia’s interior minister Ranko Ostojic has promised thousands of refugees queuing at the Opatovac camp that they will be transferred.
Crowded again at the entrance of Opatovac camp. Interior minister Ostojić: Maintain order, you'll all be transferred pic.twitter.com/w3taVbJzTG
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Serbia gave Croatia until the end of Wednesday to lift the freight blockade or face political, legal and economic retaliation.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he had spoken by phone with his Croatian counterpart, Zoran Milanovic, and that they would continue discussions to find a resolution. Without a deal by midnight on Wednesday, he said, Serbia would implement a package of measures against Zagreb.
8.37am BST
The Guardian’s Mona Mahmood has been speaking to Abu Maria, a 40-year-old father of four from Syria, who has just been granted asylum in Sweden
I had to leave the Za’atari camp in Jordan by any means. I needed medical treatment for my daughter, Maria, who suffers a mental disorder and has difficulty speaking. There was no proper medication or clean accommodation so her suffering was accute.
I had no choice but to smuggle myself to Greece on a crowded boat. I had to borrow $1,500 from a friend in Jordan. The Jordanian authorities were only too happy to allow me to leave. They gave me approval within a day.
8.20am BST
The European Commission has published a useful guide to how the refugee quota system will work. It sets out the individual quotas of refugee that each country will take under the plan. Despite objections from four central European countries they will also be forced to take their share of refugees. Here are the quotas for the dissenting countries:
7.54am BST
Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the refugee crisis as an EU summit is set to agree a deal to resettle 120,000 across Europe in the face of opposition from central European states.
Here’s a roundup of the latest developments:
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