US, Arab Countries 'Should Help Europe' Tackle Migrant Crisis

The United States and Arab countries should help Europe overcome the ongoing refugee crisis, a member of the Hungarian Association for Migrants Menedek told Sputnik on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Earlier in the day, US President Barack Obama ordered his administration to admit up to 10,000 more Syrian refugees in the next fiscal year.

This is approximately half the number of refugees Spain have been asked to take in under the European Commission quota system and almost four times less than Germany is expected to accept over the course of two years.

"The United States and also Arab countries should help. The United States also has possibilities to provide refuge," Lila Zentai from Menedek, who now coordinates the provision of assistance to arriving refugees at Nyugati railway station in Budapest, said.

Europe is now struggling to cope with a large-scale refugee crisis, as thousands asylum seekers from crisis-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East try to find a safe haven in EU member states.

On Thursday, the European Parliament backed the resettlement of 160,000 refugees in the European Union over the next two years and agreed to amend the Dublin rules, requiring migrants to seek asylum in the first EU member state of arrival to prevent multiple applications and abuse of the system.