Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet has agreed a package of measures to help German towns cope with the influx of asylum seekers amid Europe’s migration crisis.

With the focus on those fleeing conflict, it has backed a tightening of rules for asylum seekers from the Balkans that would make it easier to deport applicants from countries like Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, which the government has now declared ‘safe ‘.

For Syrian and other refugees, there are steps to provide more housing and support for unaccompanied minors and to speed up the asylum process.

Overcrowding at some refugee camps has fuelled anger and fights among the new arrivals.

On Sunday, 14 people were injured in a clash at refugee accommodation in the German state of Hesse.

Trouble is said to have flared when one migrant jumped the queue at a food counter.

“There is no space for 6,000 people inside the camp,” said one migrant living there, complaining that he was unable to get food because of violent disp