Hungary Ready to Build Fence on Border with Romania if Needed

The Schengen travel zone involves 30 nations, including a few not in the European Union.

Austria will build a 3.7-km (2.5-mile) fence either side of its busiest border crossing with Slovenia to help manage the flow of thousands of migrants a day onto its territory, senior officials said on Friday.

Those included a fenced “security corridor” on Slovenian territory and enhanced patrols outside that area by the Slovenian security forces, she said.

Chancellor Werner Faymann’s chief of staff, Josef Ostermayer, told reporters, “We are talking here about an ordered inflow and not a barrier”.

Germany, which expects up to one million arrivals this year, said on Friday it would extend temporary border controls implemented in September until mid-February.

The European Commission – the EU’s executive – last week unveiled a plan to redistribute 160,000 migrants across the continent to relieve pressure on “frontline” states such as Italy, Greece and Hungary.

The dispute has irritated rather than threatened bilateral relations, but tempers flared this week when Slovenian troops unfurled the wire, prompting Croatia’s special forces to arrive on the scene and its politicians to demand immediate removal of the fence.

Rumyana Bachvarova says “I hope that we can disprove these allegations”.

Mikl-Leitner said it falls in line with Schengen rules and thus will not go against European Union regulations, especially as it is able to be dismantled again.

THE CZECH RESYSTEM AND SLOVAKIA: These two transit countries, fearing an influx of migrants after Germany’s move, have adopted similar measures at their borders.

She says a fence could be erected within 48 hours if needed. The small Alpine nation says it is overwhelmed by the refugee surge.

It said the summit in Turkey – which is host to 2.2 million Syrian refugees – is a chance for G-20 countries to reverse what it said was their “shocking inaction”.

The report said the majority of alleged abuses took place in southern areas bordering Turkey, at holding centres inside Bulgaria and at the northwestern border with Serbia.

The government said the move would “bring order” to Sweden’s reception of migrants and make sure they are registered as they enter the country.

Ms Greening said the new money would create j obs in East Africa, provide food and water to people who have fled their homes in Sudan, and provide education and training in Ethiopia. The country has stayed out of global focus as only hundreds pass through, compared with thousands going through Greece.

According to the global Organization for Migration, nearly 800,000 people have entered Europe by sea this year.

Tensions were also high Thursday in the Balkans, as Slovenia continued to erect a razor-wire fence on its border with Croatia to hold back the migrant influx.

Almost 200,000 refugees have entered the tiny European nation of Slovenian since mid-October despite work beginning to build a fence at the border. Slovenia has repeatedly said the influx is too big to handle.