François Hollande has said France will welcome 24,000 refugees as part of an EU-wide plan that "can and will" bring the crisis under control, reports The Independent.
Speaking at the start of a live TV press conference, the French president said his country has a duty to take in those fleeing war and persecution, and is ready to do so.
His comments came as David Cameron prepared to outline Britain's plan to tackle the refugee crisis. The Prime Minister was expected to say that the UK would take "thousands" more asylum-seekers as part of a "fundamental rethink" of its role as a place of refuge.
Mr Hollande said he and the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, had spoken and agreed upon a mechanism to distribute refugees more fairly across Europe.
Also speaking on Monday, Ms Merkel told reporters that she and other European leaders "have a moving, in some parts breathtaking, weekend behind us".
The Reuters news agency reported that the EU executive was preparing to unveil a new set of quotas for more asylum-seekers to be shared across Europe.
Proposals to be announced on Wednesday will reportedly involve relocating a further 31,443 refugees in Germany, as well as the additional 24,031 Mr Hollande appears to have agreed to in France. In total, it will mean Europe taking in 120,000 people on top of the 40,000 previously agreed.
Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orban, has already rejected the idea of a new EU quota system for refugees, however.
He mocked the idea of having a quota while also maintaining the EU's open borders, and hit out at his fellow leaders for casting Hungary as the bloc's "black sheep" on the matter.