reece and 121,000 in Italy. UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) figures are more conservative. It forecasts that 400,000 people will have crossed the Mediterranean by the end of the year and that “450,000 or more” will follow in 2016.

160,000 -

EU Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has proposed relocating 160,000 asylum-seekers across the 28-member union from Greece, Hungary and Italy and wants a permanent mechanism of binding quotas to deal with future emergencies.

63,000 -

Around 63,000 migrants have arrived by rail at the main station in Munich, southern Germany since August 31, including 20,000 over each of the last two weekends.

Neighbouring Austria was bracing for 10,000 people on Monday and Hungary reported a record 5,809 arrivals on Sunday.

1,000,000 -

Germany might take in one million refugees this year, Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said. The interior ministry’s official estimate still stands at a record 800,000 for now, however.

12,000,000 -

The number of people officially estimated to have been displaced by the conflict in Syria. That includes eight million displaced within the country and four million abroad, first to Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey before heading to Europe. An estimated 250,000 people have died in the Syrian conflict since March 2011.

According to the UNHCR, half of all migrant crossings this year were made by Syrians, but many migrants also come from Afghanistan, Albania, Kosovo, Iraq, Nigeria and Somalia.