Germany and France pressed the rest of Europe to end squabbling over its exploding migration crisis that is sowing new political divisions across the Continent.<\/p>\n
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Hollande called for a burden-sharing system to distribute across the European Union the swelling numbers of people arriving from violent regions in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.<\/p>\n
Their call for action came as hundreds of migrants faced off with Hungarian police and after a photograph of a Syrian boy lying dead on the beach in Turkey, drowned trying to reach a Greek island, appeared on the front pages of newspapers across Europe. The image sparked outrage at what critics say is the European Union\u2019s timid response to the crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tragedy,\u201d\u009d Mr. Hollande said of the boy\u2019s death, \u201cbut it\u2019s also an appeal to the European conscience.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n