Angela Merkel of Germany has told her fellow EU members it has done enough on taking more refugees and that they should step up effort to take in more refugees

Angela Merkel

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has demanded the European Union (EU) to accept refugees in order to reduce the backlog of the people stuck in southeast of the bloc.

Angela Merkel speaking in a meeting in Vienna with nine other heads of government, said "In view of the many refugees who are already with us, other EU countries will have to jump in."

The German Chancellor opened a an open door to refugees that led 1.1 million migrants into Germany, now the German Chancellor wants other EU nations to open doors for the displayed migrants.

But, she warned the EU’s “mechanism is too slow” to be able to distribute people who have filed asylum applications.

In the second quarter of this year, the bloc accepted 305,700 asylum applications, edging the total to about 1.5m over the past year.

Germany took in more than 60 percent of those in the three months ending in June.

The Vienna summit of leaders of nations along the Balkans route was called in a bid to unblock disagreements at the heart of the immigration problem, Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern said.

He added: “You will never be able to close a border completely, but for Germany it’s been too much and I understand the concern.”

Mr Kern said he wants to make a financial deal with Niger, Mali, Egypt and Senegal along the same lines of the EU-Turkey deal to alleviate pressure from North African migrants.

He also suggested deals should be made with Pakistan and Afghanistan to clear the way for deporting more migrants from Greece where they live in overcrowded conditions.

The controversial EU-Turkey deal means Greece is able to send back Syrian migrants to Turkey in exchange for the EU giving Turks visa-free travel across Europe as well as financial aid to Turkey.

However the agreement has been riddled with problems as Turkey refuses to change its counter-terror policy, and even pulled its border control guards from Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.

Mr Kern, however, believes the deal is successful.

He said: “We have a successful model with Turkey and this is the model on which we want to build.”

Mrs Merkel suggested EU personnel could be dispatched to Greece to help manage the refugee build-up there.

French police arresting migrant

Thousands have been left stranded on Greek islands unable to cope with the numbers after Austria and its Balkan neighbors shut their borders, closing off the migrant route to western Europe.

Athens was infuriated by the border restrictions but tensions with Germany eased since the EU-Turkey deal was implemented in March.

Mr Kern suggested military forces would be allowed to help in some cases and more staff from EU border force Frontex should be provided to ensure member states meet commitments already made.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who is famous for his hardline on immigration and has built reinforced fences on his borders, said preparations should also be made in the event the EU-Turkey deal collapses.

He said: "We must have a second plan for the eventuality that the EU-Turkey deal, for whatever reason, collapses.

”When the migrants descend on us and trouble arrives it will be too late to reach for blueprints, for fences, for physical barriers, for new police and soldiers."