| 1 | The European Union appealed Friday to its member countries to live up to pledges to provide planes and other assets so that its border agency can cope with a migrant influx into Greece and Hungary. |
| 2 | EU leaders committed in April to triple the Frontex agency's budget and provide it with more assets as thousands of people fleeing conflict and poverty converged on Europe in search of better lives. |
| 3 | "If we don't get these assets, it would seriously undermine Frontex's ability to carry out its operations," EU migration spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said. |
| 4 | Many countries had pledged assets for short-term use, but Bertaud said more planes and "technical assistance" like personnel and patrol cars are needed for Greece and Hungary. |
| 5 | The International Organization for Migration said Friday that more than 192,000 migrants had arrived in Europe by sea this year to August 6. |
| 6 | More than 2,000 migrants died attempting the perilous Mediterranean crossing. |
| 7 | Survivors from a capsized fishing boat arriving in Italy Thursday have told police that around 200 people probably drowned because smugglers had kept them inside the hold. |
| 8 | Frontex said Friday that almost 50,000 migrants arrived in the EU in July via Greece, compared to 41,700 in all of 2014. |
| 9 | That currently makes it the most used entry point in Europe for migrants, the majority of whom come from Syria and Afghanistan. |
| 10 | Frontex Deputy Executive Director Gil Arias Fernandez said the agency would struggle to help Greece and Hungary, where thousands have entered by land via Serbia this year, "unless we receive the necessary equipment." |
| 11 | The border agency is considering leasing private aircraft, but the EU wants nations to provide the resources. |
| 12 | The appeal is a fresh sign of Europe's inability to manage the influx and share out refugees who arrive. |
| 13 | It comes as incidents involving migrants on France's border with Britain and Italy multiply and Hungary erects an anti-migrant fence. |
| 14 | Lead European parliamentarian on migration, Roberta Metsola, called for "a seismic shift" in EU thinking. |
| 15 | "We cannot let history judge us as the generation who stood by and talked while people died," she said. |