A statement from Juncker’s office said the summit would seek to promote “greater cooperation, more extensive consultation and immediate operational action”.
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But Croatia retorted that it, too, was being unfairly burdened by unrelenting flows from Serbia, where United Nations officials estimate another 10,000 asylum seekers – more than double the summer’s typical flow – are now traveling north to Croatia.
The ultimate goal for many is the EU’s biggest economy Germany, which expects to take in around one million refugees this year, and where Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy has sparked an angry backlash.
“The last 24 hours have been the toughest and most demanding since the start of the crisis”, the Slovenian government said, adding that parliament was set to vote on allowing soldiers to help border police in the crisis “under very specific circumstances”. The letter, to be provided to all new arrivals, warned they would face lengthy legal delays and spend a year or more living in an austere reception, such as in sports centers or tents, where many people share the same lodgings while their asylum applications are considered. She said about 300 people mostly from Vietnam, Iraq and Syria have entered the Baltic country this year from Russian Federation.
Of these, more than 500,000 crossed from Turkey to Greece by sea, a unsafe journey that has left more than 3,000 people dead or missing. Once in Slovenia, police surrounded them.
Slovenia accused the Croats of breaking an agreement to limit the number of migrants crossing into its territory to 2,500 per day.
More than 1,000 migrants were dropped at the Slovenian border by train from Croatia early Wednesday.
Croatia sent extra security forces to the border to prevent migrants from crossing into fields and entering Slovenia through its green frontier.
Tents have been torched at a transit camp in Slovenia, allegedly by migrants angry at how they are being treated.
Slovenia voiced sharped criticism over Zagreb’s decision to open its borders on Monday night, letting thousands of people into Slovenia.
The latest report by Amnesty worldwide (AI) said hundreds of men, women, children and babies as young as one month old traipsed through the rain to reach a border only to find it blocked by a fence and Slovenian police.
In the meantime, thousands of people were stranded in the cold weather along the Croatian-Serbian border, as Croatian authorities struggled to transport people to its border with Slovenia.
Thousands of migrants marched across western Balkans borderlands Tuesday as authorities cautiously lowered barriers and intensified efforts to cope with a human tide unseen in Europe since World War II.
The EU’s plan to relocate 160,000 people seeking asylum from frontline states Greece and Italy to other member states based on a quota system is lagging behind, according to sources.
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In addition, member states have also been slow to follow up with promised financial help; only about €474million of the promised €2.8billion promised at an emergency European Union summit on the 23rd September have materialised.
