GERMAN government officials will reject an opposition leader’s call for the country to unilaterally take in refugee children stuck in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands, it was revealed today.

Green Party co-leader Robert Habeck told a national newspaper on Sunday that “it is a humanitarian imperative to help quickly” and get some 4,000 children out of the camps.

Asked whether Germany should go ahead even if other European countries don’t also take in refugees, he replied: “Yes. In any case, everyone will never join in.”