Libya migrant build-up alarms EU

The president of the European Council has warned Italy and Malta of large numbers of would-be migrants in Libya.

Donald Tusk told MEPs that it would not be possible to apply the same approach used for the Balkans to unstable Libya.

Italy's coastguard says 4,000 people were rescued from the Mediterranean between Libya and Sicily on Monday and Tuesday.

Meanwhile, FYROM [*] police again fired teargas at migrants protesting at the border with Greece.

About 11,000 migrants and refugees have been camped out at Idomeni on the Greek side of the border since countries on the route to northern Europe through the Balkans closed their borders...
 BBC
13/4/16
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Related:

• 4,000 migrants rescued in Strait of Sicily in two days - Italy coastguard 

• Violence, use of teargas at Greek border "matter of great worry" – UN refugee agency

• Hundreds of refugees injured after clashes with FYROM police at borders