Zsolt Nemeth, head of the Hungarian parliament’s foreign relations committee, said his country is working jointly with the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia to help protect Hungary’s border with Croatia, which is also an external border for the EU’s passport-free Schengen travel zone.
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Sweden alone expects to process 150,000 asylum applications this year, Prime Minister Stefan Loven said on Friday, adding it may have to house a few of them in heated tents.
Officials in Main-Taunus county west of Frankfurt say the unusual action aims to make it easier for authorities to cope with the influx, for example by suspending certain building regulations.
As the 19 Eritreans made their trip, new data emerged showing a massive surge in the number of migrants arriving in Greece to 7,000 from 4,500 a day at the end of September.
Turkey is now hosting 2.2 million refugees from Syria and 300,000 Iraqis, making it the world’s biggest refugee host.
Last month, European Union leaders agreed to set up hostpots in Greece and Italy to screen incoming refugees and differentiate between bona fide asylum seekers and economic migrants. He said guest countries would be decided by experts at EU-staffed hotspots, and not the refugees. He said the boat was found late Saturday.
The United Nations high commissioner for refugees, Antonio Guterres, welcomed the start of a European Union relocation program with the departure of a first group of asylum seekers Friday from Italy to Sweden. Home Secretary Theresa May said Thursday that “we need to see Europe upping its game”.
“In Mitilini, the first receptions centers will be operational in a week to 10 days, and on four other islands we will have installed these “hotspots” these reception centers”, he said.
The 15-member U.N. Security Council voted to authorize the European Union and other nations to board, search, and seize vessels suspected of human trafficking in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya.
He was found unconscious by a coast guard patrol boat, and medics were unable to revive him.
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In the Lesbos incident, the coast guard rescued 56 people from the sea Thursday night after the rear part of their dinghy burst, partially sinking the boat.
