EU to give emergency aid to help Greece

The European Union was scheduled to announce plans on Wednesday for emergency aid to Greece which is struggling to cope with an influx of migrants with thousands stuck in misery at its border after Balkan states tightened their frontiers.

Greece has asked for around $520 million to help shelter 100,000 refugees as Europe faces its biggest wave of refugees since World War II in a crisis that has sown deep discord and threatened the bloc's solidarity.

Greece has been struggling to cope with the influx of migrants who have been arriving en masse from neighboring Turkey.