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PM urges EU nations to fund refugee camps around Syria

David Cameron has visited camps in Lebanon and Jordan to meet Syrian refugees who have fled their country's civil war.

The Prime Minister has called on other EU countries to "step up to the plate" and follow Britain's lead by funding refugee camps around Syria.

Mr Cameron said there was a "direct connection" between shortfalls in aid for camps in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey and the influx of migrants into Europe.

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Hungary PM: 'Europeans will be minority on own continent'

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban fears Credit: Reuters

The Hungarian prime minister has said Europeans "could become a minority on their own continent."

Speaking on public radio, Viktor Orban, one of Europe's most outspoken critics of mass immigration, talked about the threat to "Christian values" that the current crisis poses. . "Now we talk about hundreds of thousands but next year we will talk about millions and there is no end to this," he said.

"All of a sudden we will see that we are in a minority in our own continent."

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