In Germany, refugees have been welcomed with cheers, food and donations of warm clothes this weekend, as the country welcomed 10,000 refugees in just one day.
The vine, by NBC reporter Cassandra Vinograd, has been looped some 470,000 times since she uploaded it on Monday.
"This sweet moment... A young German girl and a newly arrived young refugee," the journalist captioned the short clip.
Germany has taken in the greatest number of asylum seekers so far, and it's Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on neighbouring countries who receive German-funded EU subsidies to show solidarity.
Speaking yesterday, Mrs Merkel said on Tuesday that Europe needed to implement a joint system for dealing with asylum seekers and agree to binding quotas on how to distribute refugees across the continent.
Germany expects the number of refugees it receives to quadruple to about 800,000 this year and says it cannot continue to take them in at that rate. A state premier said on Tuesday the 800,000 figure would be surpassed in 2015.
"This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper but must also exist in practice. I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees," she told a joint news conference with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven in Berlin.
"I personally, and we spoke about this, am of the opinion that we should not now outbid each other with threats. We should speak to each other in a spirit of mutual respect."
She added that Europe needed to discuss changes to its asylum policy as neither Greece nor Italy could take in all the refugees arriving there on boats from Turkey or North Africa.
Sweden, with one of Europe's most generous policies on immigration, expects to receive 74,000 refugees this year.
Yesterday, Prime Minister Lofven echoed Merkel's sentiment, calling it a "human responsibility" for the EU to come together to share the number of refugees.
"Our responsibility is deeply moral. It is a human responsibility," he said. "We have to do this together. There are 28 countries in the EU with the same responsibility."
Smaller central and eastern European Union states have rejected any mandatory quotas for taking in refugees as the European Commission prepares to present a plan to that end.
Several hundred thousand refugees and migrants from war-torn or impoverished parts of the Middle East and Africa have reached Europe this year, but those numbers pale beside the almost 4 million in Syria's neighbours Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey.
- Daily Mail
