"The Hungarian-Croatian green border has been closed on Friday midnight and the same border control method has been introduced there as at the Hungarian-Serbian border," Hungarian government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said as cited in a Saturday statement on the official website of the Hungarian Prime Minister’s office.
According to the statement, two transit zones have been established, where migrants entering the country can be registered.
"Mr. Kovács underlined the fact that it remains possible to enter the country legally through the Hungarian-Croatian border as well," the statement on the Hungarian government website said.
- Slovenia is now in danger of being overwhelmed by migrants as Croatia plans to direct them to Slovenia now that the border with Hungary is closed.
- On Friday evening, Slovenia stopped rail transport from Croatia and strengthened security at its borders.
Over 700,000 migrants arrived in the European Union within the first nine months of 2015, according to EU border protection agency Frontex. The migrants are leaving their conflict-torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, such as Syria, in search of better life conditions in wealthy EU countries, such as Germany and Austria.
Hungary has been a major transit country for the refugees. Las month, Hungary closed its border with Serbia in an effort to curb the influx of refugees.
In September, the European Commission announced a quota scheme, providing for the resettlement of 160,000 refugees currently located in Greece, Italy and Hungary, throughout other European countries.
(Sputnik)
17/10/15
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Hungary seeks to ‘protect EU from Muslim migrants’ ...
ReplyDeleteHungary declared its southern border with Croatia closed to migrants on Friday, diverting them into tiny Slovenia in a measure of Europe's disjointed response to the flow of people reaching its shores in flight from war and poverty.
With autumn winds and rain whipping the Balkans, a last train drew up at the border, and some 2,000 migrants disembarked for the short, muddy walk past razor wire into Hungary as a midnight cut-off point expired.
Hungary has erected a steel fence almost the length of its southern frontier, declaring it is duty-bound to secure the borders of the European Union from mainly Muslim migrants threatening, it says, the prosperity, security and "Christian values" of Europe.
A month ago, the right-wing government of Hungary’s fiercely anti-immigration prime minister, Viktor Orban, shut down the migrant route across its frontier with Serbia, slamming the door on hundreds of thousands of Middle Eastern, African and Asian migrants, many of them refugees from war in Syria, streaming across the Balkan peninsula.
They were diverted into Croatia, from where they entered Hungary, crossing in recent weeks at a rate of 5,000 to 8,000 per day en route to Austria and Germany, the preferred destinations of most.
With that route now sealed, too, Croatia said it had a plan in place to send them to Slovenia from midnight, in agreement with its fellow former Yugoslav republic.....Reuters........alarabiya.net
Croatia diverts migrants to Slovenia after Hungary border closure...
ReplyDeleteA first bus full of migrants arrived at a Slovenian border crossing with Croatia on Saturday, the Slovenian police said, after Hungary shut its border with Croatia late on Friday, diverting them toward Slovenia.
Hungary's action to close its southern border is indicative of Europe’s disjointed response to the flow of people fleeing war and poverty.
Slovenian police said the bus had arrived at a border crossing from Croatia and that the passengers would be registered.
But Slovenia has canceled all rail traffic with fellow European Union member and former Yugoslav republic Croatia, potentially slowing the movement of people just as autumn winds and rain are sweeping through the Balkans.
Forty-three buses packed with migrants, many of them refugees from the war in Syria, were stacked up at Serbia’s western border with Croatia in the village of Berkasovo, a Reuters reporter said. Croatia had only allowed five buses to enter in the morning and some had been queuing through the night................reuters.com
Erste 1500 Flüchtlinge erreichen Slowenien....
ReplyDeleteUngarn hat seine Grenze zum EU-Nachbarland Kroatien abgesperrt. Ein Zaun entlang der Grenze wurde um Mitternacht geschlossen. In Slowenien trifft sich nun der Nationale Sicherheitsrat.
Kroatien hat nach Schließung der ungarischen Grenze damit begonnen, Flüchtlinge in Richtung Slowenien umzuleiten. Der erste Bus mit Migranten erreichte am Samstag die slowenische Grenze, wie die slowenische Polizei mitteilte. Die Flüchtlinge müssten sich nun einem Registrierungsverfahren unterziehen, sagte ein Sprecher. Insgesamt seien die ersten 1500 Menschen auf dem Weg zu den beiden Übergängen Macelj und Mursko Sredisce, berichteten Medien unter Berufung auf Innenminister Ranko Ostojic........n24.de
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Slovénie : l'assistance de l’armée pour gérer l'afflux de migrants...
ReplyDeleteAprès la fermeture de la frontière hongroise, la Slovénie doit gérer un soudain afflux de migrants. Le Premier ministre a annoncé samedi que la police serait épaulée par l’armée.
En Slovénie, le Premier ministre Miro Cerar a annoncé samedi 17 octobre faire appel à l'armée pour une assistance "logistique" face au flux de migrant qui a commencé à transiter par son territoire après la fermeture dans la nuit de la frontière entre la Hongrie et la Croatie.
Cette assistance comprendra "une surveillance par hélicoptère, des camions et d'autres moyens logistiques", a détaillé le ministre de l'Intérieur, Bostjan Sefic, soulignant qu'elle n'aurait "pas de pouvoirs de police".
Le flux de migrants a commencé à traverser la Slovénie en direction de l'Autriche dans des conditions qualifiées de "fluides" par le Haut-commissariat des Nations unies pour les réfugiés. Au minimum 2 400 migrants devaient entrer en Slovénie au cours de la journée de samedi, un chiffre susceptible de tripler dans les prochains jours.
La Slovénie a annoncé disposer de 8 000 places d'hébergement temporaire, soit la moyenne du nombre de migrants susceptibles de transiter quotidiennement. Mais en pratique, un certain nombre de migrants ont traversé ce petit pays en quelques heures seulement, samedi, pour gagner la frontière autrichienne.
L'Autriche, qui avait anticipé cet afflux et renforcé la présence des forces de l'ordre à la frontière, offre aux migrants la possibilité de déposer une demande d'asile ou de continuer leur route vers l'Allemagne, la destination de choix de la majorité d'entre eux.
Avec AFP
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