The summit and African leaders perished in a migrant boat sinking Libya away. An Afghan refugee died last month after being shot by Bulgarian police who said it was an accidental death from a ricochet.
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Coastguards said they had rescued 27 survivors.
The Scandinavian country expects to receive up to 190,000 asylum seekers this year – the equivalent of 1.
WERTHEIMER: Sweden has long welcomed refugees and asylum seekers, but there is a growing anti-immigrant movement in the country.
“If we are to cope with this mutual challenge, the other countries must take their responsibility”, he added.
“After less than one day of witnessing Swedish border controls, it is our assessment that border controls would lead to more asylum seekers in Denmark and not fewer”, he said.
Fredrik Bengtsson, spokesman for the Swedish Migration Agency, told the BBC the organization was transporting people at border by bus to its offices for registration, but “once they get there quite a lot don’t enter and get registered but disappear”.
A few 150,000 people from African countries such as Eritrea, Nigeria and Somalia have crossed the Mediterranean from Africa this year. More than 770,000 people have arrived in the European Union by sea so far this year overwhelming border authorities and receptions centers.
Ban said shifting funds from development aid to refugee assistance was “counter-productive” and would reduce opportunities for millions of people worldwide seeking to build better lives in their home countries.
Hungary’s prime minister says his country and others from Eastern Europe will send over 300 police and border guards to Greece to help “stop” the flow of migrants. That is more than double the levels that were initially predicted.
Police were also checking papers at terminals for ferries arriving in southern Sweden from Denmark and Germany.
Facing the biggest refugee crisis since World War II, ministers from European Union member states will gather later Monday in Brussels to try and heal deep divisions in the bloc over migrant policy.
Hungary’s right-wing government has stopped all migrant traffic through its territory with more than 200 kilometers (120 miles) of fence on its borders with Serbia and Croatia.
Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek says: “the stabilization of the Balkans is necessary for the stability… of the whole of Europe”.
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And the border controls are also a way of making sure that that doesn’t happen. Denmark said it was tightening immigration rules and Slovenia began to emulate Budapest in erecting new border fences.
