Several German state governments have said they would be prepared to take in refugee children from Greece. One state, Thuringia, has even suggested it would do so in the face of the refusal in Berlin.
Bosnia-Herzegovina has begun to move migrants from an informal camp near the country's northern border with Croatia. The site in Vucjak fell into international disrepute for its squalid living conditions.
In the latest attempt to ease the overcrowding in migrant camps on the Greek Aegean islands, over 350 migrants left Lesbos and Chios over the weekend. 10,000 migrants have been moved to mainland Greece since July, but given the unabated influx of migrants from Turkey, that effort is not nearly enough.
In the Vucjak migrant camp in Bosnia, over 800 people remain without running water, electricity or functioning toilets. Local authorities have announced that two other official camps will soon close, leaving more than 2,000 additional people sleeping outside. With winter approaching, many fear a humanitarian catastrophe.
Local authorities in the town of Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina have cut off the water supply to the nearby Vucjak migrant camp. They want to force the government to move migrants from the overcrowded site.
Tunisia has decided to close the Medenine center for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers due to overcrowding and inhumane conditions.
Aid organizations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are being forced to end their life-saving Mediterranean rescue mission. MSF managing director Florian Westphal told DW the situation is "catastrophic."
Hundreds of people, both migrants and Italians, are living in a former penicillin factory in Rome, amidst rubbish, unsafe structures, and highly dangerous chemical waste. They are calling on the city government to provide them with an alternative so they can leave the structure, which is an environmental hazard to both the structure's occupants and the area's residents.
The Red Cross in Ventimiglia - on the border between France and Italy - has reported an increase in the number of migrants in its center, compared with the month of May.
Migrants who had been forced to work in the fields in southern Italy for 25€ ($30) per day have been left homeless in the middle of winter after a fire burned down the camp in Calabria where they were living.