“We should all take a look in the mirror and ask how we can help”, Sipila told national broadcaster YLE.

Finland’s prime minister has said that he will allow refugees to stay at his private residence as thousands of people continue to pour into Europe from war torn areas of Africa and the Middle East.

Mr Sipilä, who spends most of his time in Helsinki, said his home in Kempele in the country’s north was little used at the moment and would house asylum seekers from the start of next year.

Sipilä travels to Oulu today Saturday to discuss the lack of crisis accommodations there and to finalise the handing over of his Kempele home to house refugees.

The leader of the Center Party, Sipila has been heading a centre-right government since May.

Deep spending cuts and rising unemployment has left the recession-hit country struggling to find stability.

Finland’s authorities yesterday doubled its estimate for the variety of asylum seekers within the nation this yr to as much as 30,000.

The news comes as the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration confirmed on Friday that 2,313 people had arrived in August.

The European Union is now wrestling with how to deal with the influx of refugees, as the current system has been called inadequate and unfair.

As the world responds to the growing crisis, more than 2,000 migrants arrived in the German city of Munich to cheers, after they were allowed to leave Hungary and cross through Austria.

‘It’s not certain that the numbers will fall.