The Latest: Turkish PM denies sending Syrians back

Ahmet Davutoglu says Turkey hasn't returned a single Syrian refugee, because the government and the extremist organizations in Syria are known for being "brutal."

The mayor of a northern Greek border region has filed a lawsuit claiming impromptu refugee camps in the area are illegal, and citing violations of regulations on health, safety and the obstruction of traffic.

Dozens of migrants and refugees are staging a sit-down protest in the Greece's main port of Piraeus, where thousands have been camping out for weeks, after reports that authorities would try to move the people there into organized camps.

After a crisis that has shaken the European Union to its core, the EU's executive wants a fundamental reform of its migrant policies that heaped pressure on some nations like Greece as a million migrants and refugees have arrive over the past year.

In a draft document to other EU institutions and seen by The Associated Press, the EU Commission wants to amend the principle where the first nation of call must process the asylum request.

French President Francois Hollande says that the European Union's biggest problem is its slow decision-making process — whether in the financial crisis, the fight against terrorism or a common response to the refugee crisis.

The French president, who is meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in France for government consultations on Thursday, also stressed that the refugee crisis needs a common European response instead of national decisions by different European countries.