Romania’s prime minister says his country has not been confronted by a large influx of asylum-seekers and should be open to receiving more.
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On Thursday, the interior ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland will discuss further ways to help Hungary, which has seen over 318,000 people seeking safety arrive this year.
People help a wheelchair user board a train with others, heading… The latest developments in the hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants passing through Europe on their way west. All times local. Nemeth says “we should defend the Greek border together”. “We want (migrants) to enter the Schengen zone only at the checkpoints”.
Hungary has built a razor-wire fence on its border with Serbia, which is not in the European Union, and is rapidly completing a similar barrier on the Croatian border as well. Most Afghan migrants arrive at the Turkish coast directly from Istanbul via the city of Canakkale at departure areas north of Lesbos. Since then, however, opposition to the scheme has grown more vocal.
Victor Ponta said Monday Romania has received 944 asylum requests this year, of which 18 were in August.
Austria, a nation of around 8.5 million people, has become the main thoroughfare for migrants traveling to Europe via Greece and the Balkans.
During comments made Wednesday, the European Union executive’s deputy chief spokeswoman Mina Andreeva also said that Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker had spoken on the telephone with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann who called for additional staff and experts to assist the bloc’s border agency Frontex.
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EU Council President Donald Tusk told lawmakers Tuesday that “according to Turkish estimates, another 3 million potential refugees may come from Aleppo and its neighbourhood”.
