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Germany 'can cope with more migrants' Migrant crisis: Germany 'can take 500,000 asylum-seekers a year'
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Germany can cope with 500,000 asylum-seekers a year for several years, vice chancellor says Germany can cope with at least 500,000 asylum-seekers a year for several years, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel has said.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. Officials have said they expect more than 800,000 asylum-seekers in 2015 alone - four times the 2014 figure.
If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. Mr Gabriel repeated that other European countries should take their fair share.
The UN's refugee agency, UNHCR, says a record 7,000 Syrian refugees arrived in Macedonia alone on Monday and 30,000 migrants were on Greek islands.
The migrant influx has unsettled European governments and prompted diverse responses - Hungary's conservative leadership has been building a border fence to try to keep them out while the German leadership expresses pride in crowds who turned out to welcome them in.
A Greek minister said on Monday that the island of Lesbos, which sits off the Turkish coast, was "on the verge of an explosion" due to a build-up of 20,000 migrants trying to reach the European mainland.
The government and UNHCR have brought in extra staff and ships to process the migrants.