Refugee crisis: EU plans new detention measures – live updates

• EU governments are expected to back radical new plans for the detention of “irregular migrants”, the creation of large new refugee camps in Italy and Greece and longer-term aims for the funding and building of refugee camps outside the EU to try to stop people coming to Europe. A crunch meeting of EU interior ministers in Brusselswas also expected to water down demands for obligatory sharing of refugees across at least 22 countries.

• Hungary’s anti-immigraton prime minister, Viktor Orban, has vowed to push ahead with a controversial border crackdown due to come into force at midnight. The UN claims that his government is transporting migrants from the Serbian border to the Austrian frontier ahead of the change.

• David Cameron has traveled to Lebanon to defend Britain’s much-criticised response to the crisis. He insisted that hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Syrian civil war have been discouraged from “risking their lives” to travel to Europe by British aid totalling £1bn.

Link To Article