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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/476/issues.mp3' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Issues Collide Over Europe's Migrant Crisis' data-article-id='906'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='12426'>Europe’s migrant crisis has brought the situation of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing conflict or seeking a better life to the world’s attention.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='12426' data-end-time='18458'>The migration has put pressure on the border security of many nations. </span> <span data-start-time='18458' data-end-time='25760'>It has raised concerns in countries receiving refugees about religious differences. </span> <span data-start-time='25760' data-end-time='35465'>In addition, there are concerns that militants could use the refugee movements to enter other countries.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='35465' data-end-time='45714'>On Wednesday, the European Parliament approved an emergency plan to relocate 40,000 refugees. </span> <span data-start-time='45714' data-end-time='51678'>Jean-Claude Juncker is the president of the European Commission. </span> <span data-start-time='51678' data-end-time='63605'>He said to the parliament, “We Europeans should never forget why giving refuge and complying with fundamental right of asylum is so important.”</span> <span data-start-time='63605' data-end-time='74218'>The European Commission president called on EU member states to resettle 160,000 refugees. </span> <span data-start-time='74218' data-end-time='84082'>Mr. Juncker said the settlement of refugees and migrants in the 22 member states must be </span> </p><p><span data-start-time='84082' data-end-time='91542'>The current migrant crisis is the largest Europe has faced since World War Two. </span> <span data-start-time='91542' data-end-time='96848'>However, the idea of a quota for migrants is disputed. </span> <span data-start-time='96848' data-end-time='109184'>At a meeting Friday in Prague, the foreign ministers of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia rejected the resettlement plan. </span> <span data-start-time='109184' data-end-time='120839'>Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek said, “We need to have control over how many [migrants] we are capable of accepting.”</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='120839' data-end-time='131587'>German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the crisis is the biggest challenge for the EU in its history.</span> <span data-start-time='131587' data-end-time='139660'>He called for a fair distribution mechanism for dealing with the additional migrants. </span> <span data-start-time='139660' data-end-time='147029'>Germany has received more asylum requests than any other European nation. </span> <span data-start-time='147029' data-end-time='153651'>The country expects up to 800,000 migrants to arrive this year.</span> <span data-start-time='153651' data-end-time='162132'>Adding to tensions are religious differences between migrants and their possible hosts. </span> <span data-start-time='162132' data-end-time='171202'>Two French mayors said that their towns would only accept Christians and not Muslim migrants.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='171202' data-end-time='178367'>This week, French and United Nations leaders condemned those statements. </span> <span data-start-time='178367' data-end-time='193628'>France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on French national television that Christians, Muslims and other minorities were being persecuted in Syria.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='193628' data-end-time='206689'>Meanwhile, no Syrian refugees have been officially resettled in Persian Gulf states such as Kuwait, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. </span> <span data-start-time='206689' data-end-time='214467'>Rulers in these states have been criticized for not doing more to help the migrants.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='214467' data-end-time='223923'>The United States said on Thursday that it will accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year. </span> <span data-start-time='223923' data-end-time='236168'>A White House spokesman said President Barack Obama had directed officials to let the refugees into the country starting in October.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='236168' data-end-time='252766'>The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said there were also concerns that Islamic State militants, known as ISIS or ISIL, could enter countries along with migrants.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='252766' data-end-time='264785'>He said, “I don't obviously put it past the likes of ISIL (the Islamic State insurgents) to infiltrate operatives among these refugees. </span> <span data-start-time='264785' data-end-time='268526'>So that is a huge concern of ours.”</span> <span data-start-time='268526' data-end-time='275510'>He added that he believes measures are in place to avoid that happening in the U.S. </span> <span data-start-time='275510' data-end-time='287619'>But he is not certain that is the case for each of the European countries faced with welcoming or permitting refugees into their country.</span> </p><p><span data-start-time='287619' data-end-time='289637'>I'm Mario Ritter.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/476/trade_deals.m4a'><span>trade deals</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/476/border_security.m4a'><span>border security</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/476/gun_control.m4a'><span>gun control</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=4288 data-hint-location='84082' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/476/the_migrant_crisis_is_the_largest_europe_has_faced_since__blank_.m4a'>The migrant crisis is the largest Europe has faced since <span class='blank'>World War Two</span>.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='World War Two'><div class='choice' 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