Refugees will freeze to death, warn EU heads

Refugees will freeze to death, warn EU heads - Telegraph
"Leaders warn the continent was "falling apart" trying to deal with the migrant crisis
Migrants crossing the Balkans will begin freezing to death as winter approaches, the head of European Union has said, as leaders warned the continent was "falling apart" trying to deal with the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.
As leaders of eastern European countries turned on each other at a foul-tempered emergency summit in Brussels, they said the Schengen visa-free zone and even the European Union itself could be pulled apart as states threw up borders to halt the influx.
'Every day counts, otherwise we will soon see families in cold rivers in the Balkans perish miserably'
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said a solution was urgently needed or thousands of refugee families facing winter temperature on the hillsides and freezing river-banks of Eastern Europe, would die..."

European refugee crisis

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710,000

Nearly three-quarters of a million migrants and refugees have arrived in Europe

38 percent

Proportion of migrants who are from Syria

1,200,000

Syrian refugees being housed in Lebanon – a country 100 times smaller than Europe. The total number of refugees who have left Syria is 4.5 million

One in five

Proportion of people in Lebanon who are refugees

1 in 122

According to the head of the UN refugee agency, one in 122 people is a refugee

1.2 percent

Proportion of migrants who land in Italy and Greece, then get as far as Calais 

510,000

More than half a million asylum applications in European countries are by Syrians since 2011

15 per cent

Proportion of female refugees from Syria who are pregnant in Turkey

100 babies

The number of Syrian babies delivered each month