Macedonia imposed the new restrictions after its neighbours Serbia and Croatia said that they would turn back migrants who weren’t from Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan and were trying to cross into their territory from Macedonia to travel on to the European Union.
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“The Greeks aren’t telling us anything”, he said.
THE Macedonian army has begun erecting a metal fence on the country’s southern border with Greece at the point where migrants cross en route to western Europe.
Around a thousand migrants remain stuck at the main border crossing into Macedonia from Greece due to new restrictions denying them refugee status. Those from other countries have not been not allowed through, since they are considered “economic migrants”.
(AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos). An elderly migrant stands behind a fence, as Pakistani migrants protest demanding to be allowed to pass the Greek-Macedonian border, near the northern Greek village of Idomeni, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015.
The migrants strike is continuing on the Greek border and authorities say that the governments in the Balkans and Europe are promising to work together to improve the route’s safety and give access to those migrants seeking access to asylum.
On Turkey’s border with Syria, a man fleeing unbearable violence in his homeland is allegedly beaten by a guard and forced back into a war zone.
Today’s clashes saw some of the migrants throw stones at the police while shouting: “We want to go to Germany”.
Meanwhile, in the rest of Greece, as the weather gets worse, the flow of migrants has seen a “drastic decrease”. “To any free country in the world”.
Following the terrorist attacks in Paris that have left at least 130 people dead, pressure has grown in Europe to install a better screening process for the millions of migrants and refugees who have flooded into the continent from war-torn regions.
Romson’s emotional moment came as she described the “tough discussions” the Swedish government had been having on how to help the country cope.
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In response, UNHCR has assisted about 150 people to return voluntarily over the past 48 hours to Athens where they are being advised they can seek asylum.
