MOSCOW (Sputnik) — French President Francois Hollande announced Monday that France would accept an additional 24,000 refugees amid the major migrant crisis in the European Union.
"The European Commission proposes to divide [accepting] 125,000 people over the next two years, and for France 24,000 people. We will do it. This crisis is dramatic, terrible, it can and it will be resolved," Hollande said at the sixth biannual press-conference.
The European Commission will publish the new plan of resettling refugees in the European Union on Wednesday.
7 September 2015, 06:53 GMT
Europe is currently in the midst of a major migrant crisis, as thousands of migrants flee conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
According to the European Union's external border protection agency Frontex, the total number of refugees detected at the bloc's borders between January and July 2015 stands at over 340,000, which is three times higher than during the same period in 2014.
