Donald Tusk will next week for the major Balkan countries located along the migratory route in order to find consensus when it comes to regulating the migration crisis that divided Europe.
The head of the European Council will go on a visit to Vienna, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Skopje and Athens in order to “further build a European consensus on how to solve the crisis of the migration and the preparation of the summit with Turkey 7 March and the European Council of 17-18 March, “- reported in the press release.
summit on March 7 is to accelerate the implementation force concluded on November 29 an agreement with Turkey, in which Ankara is committed to curbing the influx of migrants further to the EU. This agreement had not yet produced results, over which – as emphasized by the AFP – deplores the European Union, which is divided on how to deal with a wave of migration.
– restore the full functioning of the Schengen area will take time and must be accompanied by measures to deal with the humanitarian consequences in the affected (the crisis) member countries, as well as measures (in the form of) humanitarian aid for refugees Syria and the neighboring countries of Syria – underlined in the message RE.
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the President of the European Council is also to meet on 4 March in Brussels with NATO secretary general and executive director of Frontex , the agency responsible for protecting the EU’s external borders.
the Slovenian police announced on Friday that the countries lying along the Balkan migratory route have agreed to limit the number of migrants in transit through their territories to 580 a day.
police in Slovenia, Austria, Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia “is committed to reduce living transit through the countries of the Western Balkans to the number at which will be possible to control each migrant in accordance with the Schengen zone,” – said the statement. The decision was made after last week’s meeting of representatives of the police Balkan countries.
(Film – The first refugees already in the Greek “hotspots”. They are registered and identified / Source: RUPTLY / x-news)
last week, Austria imposed restrictions on providing daily intake of 80 people applying for asylum, and the annual ceiling has been set at 37.5 thousand. Limit for people in transit had to be limited to a maximum of 3.2 thousand. per day.
In connection with the problem of migration is increasing tension between Greece and Austria. Athens did not agree on the appointment of the Austrian Minister of the Interior next week. On Thursday in Vienna was canceled the Greek ambassador.
According to Greek sources, the government of Alexis Ciprasa said that in order to visit the Austrian minister, must be revoked, all decisions on the crisis of migration, taken in Vienna at a meeting of countries Balkan. Narada, which was not invited to Greece, has been received by the government of that country as a hostile gesture.
(Film – Austria puts a fence on the border with Slovenia / Source: RUPTLY / x-news)
Austria accuses Greece of it, that does not control its borders and suggests to exclude it from the Schengen area. Also announced to send its police forces to the northern boundary of Greece in order to strengthen Macedonia and stop there migrants. On the other hand, Greece claims that Austria acts arbitrarily, contrary to the findings Union and disseminates false information about the Greek efforts on border control.
The attitude of Austria has been criticized by Germany and the EU leaders, who agreed that the borders remain open and that you have to wait for the results of NATO’s actions in the Aegean Sea and on the implementation of the arrangements between Turkey and the European Union.
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