The man died after climbing onto the roof of a train carriage and touching a high-voltage overhead cable, local police said.
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Greece additionally referred to as for the deployment of more Frontex officers on its northern border with the Republic of Macedonia, the agency stated in a press release. Slovakia has not been hit by the recent wave of migrants heading for Germany and other rich Western countries.
Earlier Thursday clashes broke out between refugees, those allowed to cross the border, and the blocked migrants, each group throwing stones at the other.
According to the agency, a group of Moroccan men then “advanced towards the border crossing with cries of “Allahu akbar”, but were pushed back by Greek police who fired tear gas.
The Luxembourg minister who will chair Friday’s meeting in Brussels said he opposed suggestions from some other states that Greece be suspended from the Schengen zone for failing to secure its section of the bloc’s external border.
Protests have swelled among distressed migrants stranded for days in squalid tent camps on the border near the Greek town of Idomeni in temperatures barely above freezing.
He said work was moving ahead on building screening centers on its Aegean Sea islands.
European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said Thursday “there are a certain number of improvements that need to be done”.
“Migrants at Greece’s northern border will be checked and those found not properly identified will be registered”, Frontex Executive Director Fabrice Leggeri said in the statement.
The arrival via Turkey of hundreds of thousands of Syrian war refugees and others on Greek islands since Asselborn took over the chair of the council in July has poisoned relations among European Union leaders as migrants have moved across their borders and prompted new frontier controls that are jeopardising Schengen’s survival.
“Macedonia protects the Schengen area from refugees, who are coming from an EU member state”, said Macedonian journalist Aleksandar Damovski speaking for Radio FOCUS.”The decision not to admit economic migrants is part of the EU policy, which Macedonia adopted although it is not a member of the Union”, the journalist remarked.
“They don’t dare to ask us “drown them”, but if you do push back on a plastic boat in the middle of the sea with 50 or 70 refugees aboard, you’re asking me to drown them”, the minister said.
Greek authorities have been struggling to accurately register all migrants entering the country but mistakes are frequent and some migrants use fake papers.
Greece’s financially-strapped government says it has spent about 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) addressing the migrant crisis and only received 30 million euros in European Union aid.
Reacting to a story in the Financial Times, Ioannis Mouzalas told reporters that Wednesday that no official threat has been made to eject Greece from Europe’s borderless Schengen area. The door is in Turkey.
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“We’ll do it quickly, not with flowers or violence, but with management”, he said.
