Germany budgets $6.6b for migrants

Germany is to spend 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) next year to support the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming to the country.

The decision was reached as Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Monday that his country will propose that the European Union set up more legal ways for refugees to arrive in the Nordic nation.

Lofven said the EU must introduce a permanent and obligatory redistribution system for when disasters trigger drastically higher numbers of refugees seeking entry into the bloc, and it should increase its quota of accepted refugees to about 100,000 from the 22,000 agreed to earlier.