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| The Latest: Juncker: Refugee crisis has hurt EU’s reputation | |
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| COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: | COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The latest on the continuing flow of people into and across Europe. All times local: |
| 11:45 a.m. | |
| European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says the EU’s reputation is being damaged worldwide for the failure of member countries to manage the refugee crisis. | |
| Juncker on Friday called on nations to host more refugees arriving on Europe’s shores, after more than one million migrants entered in 2015. | |
| He said it is unacceptable “that certain member states say they are not going to accept refugees in their countries. That is not possible.” | |
| Juncker said Europe was known as a wealthy, admirable continent but that “now we do appear as being the weakest part, and the poorest part of the world.” | |
| He said he was embarrassed explaining Europe’s migrant problems to leaders of countries like Jordan or Lebanon, which are hosting more than two million refugees. | |
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| 11:35 a.m. | 11:35 a.m. |
| Authorities in Greece say three children have died after the dinghy taking them from Turkey to the tiny Greek island of Agathonisi overturned in the Aegean. | Authorities in Greece say three children have died after the dinghy taking them from Turkey to the tiny Greek island of Agathonisi overturned in the Aegean. |
| The Coast guard said 20 people were rescued and the children’s bodies were recovered. | The Coast guard said 20 people were rescued and the children’s bodies were recovered. |
| The Malta-based relief agency Migrant Offshore Aid Station was involved in the rescue effort. | The Malta-based relief agency Migrant Offshore Aid Station was involved in the rescue effort. |
| Greece is the European Union’s busiest entry point for migrants and refugees entering the bloc, with a dramatic spike in the number of people fleeing the civil war in Syria last year. | Greece is the European Union’s busiest entry point for migrants and refugees entering the bloc, with a dramatic spike in the number of people fleeing the civil war in Syria last year. |
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| 10: 35 a.m. | 10: 35 a.m. |
| In the first case of its kind in Denmark, a court has fined a 41-year-old Dane for driving five migrants from northern Germany to Sweden, where they are believed to have sought asylum. | In the first case of its kind in Denmark, a court has fined a 41-year-old Dane for driving five migrants from northern Germany to Sweden, where they are believed to have sought asylum. |
| Prosecutor Tine Friis said Friday the unidentified man was fined 5,000 kroner ($730) for violating Danish immigration laws that forbids assisting foreigners to enter Denmark illegally. | Prosecutor Tine Friis said Friday the unidentified man was fined 5,000 kroner ($730) for violating Danish immigration laws that forbids assisting foreigners to enter Denmark illegally. |
| Before the Randers City Court in western Denmark, he acknowledged picking up five Afghans in the German city of Flensburg, south of Denmark’s border, and driving them in his car to a Sweden-bound ferry in the northern Danish port town of Grenaa. | Before the Randers City Court in western Denmark, he acknowledged picking up five Afghans in the German city of Flensburg, south of Denmark’s border, and driving them in his car to a Sweden-bound ferry in the northern Danish port town of Grenaa. |
| He told the court he did it on Sept. 8 after seeing television pictures of migrants waiting to enter Denmark to reach neighboring Sweden after having crossed Europe. | He told the court he did it on Sept. 8 after seeing television pictures of migrants waiting to enter Denmark to reach neighboring Sweden after having crossed Europe. |
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