Sounds like the overall dynamic is moving, under Merkel's guidance, towards one similar to that established by Australia, on a much larger scale.
Quite a good update in the Guardian from yesterday.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/23/refugee-crisis-germany-push-compulsory-eu-quotas
The EU will pay enormous amounts of money, funding Turkey and other Middle Eastern and North African countries to continue to host huge, dysfunctional refugee camps and to police their borders, preventing those refugees who have been denied asylum in Europe from moving on.
Meanwhile the EU will engage in a costly, and undoubtedly structurally flawed form of triage to designate hundreds of thousands of refugees who will be allowed to migrate.
A lot of this seems likely to be under the governance of Frontex, which is becoming an influential and somewhat scary transnational agency. And a fair bit of it seems likely to occur by way of German fiat.
The collective management of the issue under the redistribution program is a good thing, provided the numbers resettled are as large as possible and there's some assessment of each member state's readiness.
Addressing the problem at the level of Europe will be something of a circuit breaker for the xenophobic nationalism being bolstered in individual countries.
But in the end, fencing off Europe while NATO continues to prosecute military campaigns in origin countries defies natural justice.
