Serbia compares Croatia to ‘Nazi regime’ in deepening migrant row

Serbia banned imports of Croatian goods to protest the closure of the border to cargo traffic.

The European Union migrant quota system approved in Brussels is “seriously flawed” and Hungary is considering challenging the decision in court, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Thursday.

“Croatia is behaving irresponsibly”.

The European Commission has taken legal action to force member states to do what they have agreed to do – fingerprint new arrivals and process their claims in the first country they arrive in. The closure has cut Serbia off from its main trading partners in Europe and is crippling the economy, costing both nations as much as €1 million euros ($1.1 million) a day.

It is the lowest point in relations between the two countries since the end of the Balkan Wars in the 1990s and underscores the pressure exerted by the influx of people from the Middle East, Africa and Asia who are transiting the Balkans in hopes of going to Germany, Austria and other points north.

Croatia has locked down its border with Serbia in an effort to stem the flow of thousands of refugees across the border.

“No one is moving”.

“Such and similar measures of Croatia’s police organs – and in particular the physical separation of the holders of Serbia’s travel documents from other passengers – have not been recorded in the civilized world”, said the MFA note. “The Red Cross is bringing us food here”.

Migrants sleep inside a bus as they wait to be admitted into a…

Even before the present chaos, progress in relations between Croatia and Serbia had been hard-won.

This problem can only be tackled by combating the causes of fleeing, the administration of exterior borders, respectable dwelling circumstances within the refugee camps, quicker asylum procedures, the repatriation of those that haven’t any perspective to remain, and the mixing of actual victims in want of safety, she famous.

The border measures appear likely to deal a bigger blow to Croatia, which exports about 40 percent more to Serbia than it imports.

Apart from a long line of trucks, only a few cars and buses with foreign license plates can be seen at Bajakovo coming from the direction of Serbia.