Austria foreign minister calls for greater urgency on migrant crisis


  • World
  • Friday, 04 Sep 2015

VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said European leaders needed to devise a common plan urgently to tackle the wave of migrants arriving in the bloc or risk having more and more countries resorting to their own measures.

Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing wars in the Middle East and poverty elsewhere have braved the Mediterranean Sea and land routes across the Balkans, and many have died attempting to reach the European Union.

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