Hillary for concerted efforts to address Europe refugee crisis

 Hillary Rodham Clinton is calling for a “concerted global effort” to assist the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Asia seeking refuge in Europe.

The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination said Monday that “everyone should be asked to do more” to help the migrants, many of whom are fleeing the civil war in Syria, including from areas in that country and in Iraq under the control of Islamic State militants.

 “I think we need to have a broad-based global response,” Clinton said before spending the Labor Day holiday campaigning in eastern Iowa and parts of Illinois. “The United States certainly should be at the table, but so should everybody else.”

“And if countries are not able to do more physically in taking in these refugees, they should do more financially,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Clinton, the former secretary of state, said she was speaking most particularly about the oil-rich states of the Persian Gulf.

“They should be funding a lot of the resettlement work and supporting those countries that are bearing the burden of the refugees,” Clinton said.

Clinton spoke as European countries are debating how best to share responsibility for the more than 340,000 people already seeking refuge on the continent.

British PM David Cameron said on Monday the United Kingdom would resettle up to 20,000 Syrians from camps in Turkey, Jordan and Syria over the next five years, while French President Francois Hollande said his country would take in 24,000 refugees over the next two years.

In Germany, the government has approved $6.6 billion to increase aid for asylum-seekers and hire more federal police as it also crafted plans to make it easier to build refugee housing and for 

non-German speakers to 

hold jobs.