The latest on the refugee crisis here in Europe:

Germany is to reintroduce border controls and will exit temporarily from the Schengen system, according to media reports, after the country’s regions said they could no longer cope with the overwhelming number of refugees arriving from Austria.

According to Der Spiegel, the interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, is poised to announce new restrictive measures at a press conference in Berlin later on Sunday. They include shutting the country’s borders, sending hundreds of additional police officers to Bavaria and allowing entry to Germany only with a valid passport.

The emergency measures are designed to give some respite to Germany’s federal states who are responsible for looking after refugees. There is also discussion inside the government about sending troops to the border with Austria, to reinforce security, Der Spiegel reports.

There’s a meeting coming up tomorrow (Monday) regarding the crisis:

Faymann suggested that if no consensus was reached on Monday in Brussels, Germany and its allies could try to force through a vote on quotas with a qualified majority. He also warned that Austria and Germany - both net contributors to the EU budget - would consider sanctions against countries stubbornly refusing to share the refugee burden.

This might include axing some EU structural funds from which “east European states profit most of all”, Faymann said. As well as quotas, Juncker’s proposal includes establishing hotspots at EU frontiers, including Greece and Italy, where refugees can be registered under a unitary system.

theguardian.com