There is great risk of delays in the admission of freight vehicles at the border checkpoints at the border between Serbia and Bulgaria due to the stepped-up customs control on behalf of the Serbian authorities on the origin of the transported goods. The decision is costing each nation as much as 1 million euros ($1.1 million) a day.
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Croatia has locked down its border with Serbia in an effort to stem the flow of thousands of refugees across the border.
“There is no wall, no wire that can stop the people“, Croatia’s Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic said while visiting the Opatovac transit center in Croatia.
Croatia retaliated by barring vehicles with Serbian license plates from entering the country. “No one”, said truck driver Dusko Strelja at the border in Bajakovo, Croatia.
Kovacs said they are meant to “block direct detours” by migrants who may attempt to circumvent the fences on the Serbian and Croatian borders to reach Germany and other countries in Western Europe.
“I planned to open the border… but now I won’t”, said Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic.
Serbia’s foreign ministry, in a strongly-worded protest note to Croatia, called the latest measures “discriminatory” against Serbian nationals and compared them to the actions of the Nazi puppet regime in Croatia during World War II. A prolonged crisis is certain to add more pressure to such ties.
This problem can only be tackled by combating the causes of fleeing, the administration of exterior borders, respectable dwelling circumstances within the refugee camps, quicker asylum procedures, the repatriation of those that haven’t any perspective to remain, and the mixing of actual victims in want of safety, she famous.
Nearly 200 Croatian companies trade in Serbia – including all of its major supermarket chains. The main exchanges of goods include food, construction materials and industrial products.
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But it can not all be done from Brussels – it is European Union member states who have extensive police and border forces and judicial systems. They are missing children, wives, brothers.
