EU migration spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud also said Wednesday that 28 Tunisian and 35 Egyptian migrants who did not apply for asylum in Europe were sent back to their home countries on two flights last week. Slovakia's government has approved a plan to dispatch 50 police officers in Hungary to help protect the external border of the European Union. German police and city officials say the federal government needs to quickly come up with long-term plans for dealing with the massive influx of asylum-seekers. German Police Union head Rainer Wendt says security forces are stretched to the limit dealing with border controls, attacks on refugee homes and crimes inside the refugee facilities. Moscow began airstrikes in Syria on Sept. 30, saying it was targeting Islamic State and other militant groups. Police spokesman Gerhard Koller said Wednesday the air tents are needed due to increased cold and the unabated arrivals. Germany's governing coalition is arguing over whether to set up "transit zones" on the country's border to quickly weed out migrants who have no realistic chance of winning asylum. Croatia's conservative president says her country might need to build a fence on its border to stop the migrant influx just as neighboring Hungary has done. European Union nations are failing to live up to their pledges to provide more funds and experts to help cope with Europe's refugee emergency. The EU's border agency and asylum office have appealed for around 1,000 more officers, while the executive Commission has requested hundreds of millions of euros in funding. The words sparked a sharp rebuke on Wednesday from a left-wing politician, Janusz Palikot, who slammed Kaczynski's words as racist language that Adolf Hitler "would not be ashamed of." Kaczynski, whose opposition Law and Justice party is expected to win parliamentary elections on Oct. 25, told voters Tuesday in Makow Mazowiecki that: "There are already signs of the emergence of very dangerous diseases which haven't been seen in Europe for a long time: cholera on Greek islands; dysentery in Vienna; various types of parasites, protozoa, which aren't dangerous in the organisms of these people, but which could be dangerous here."
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