Croatia says it has agreed plan on migrants with Slovenia

Defence Minister Martin Glvac said Slovakia would also send an undisclosed number of soldiers to fellow North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member Hungary in connection with the migrant crisis.

Hungary has built a fence on the border of Croatia and is sending migrants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan to Germany, Scandinavia and the Austrian frontier.

At present, a de facto corridor exists for migrants entering Croatia on their way north. The Croatian government takes the migrants to the Hungarian border, where the Hungarian government conveys them on buses and trains to Hungary’s border with Austria.

This could quickly come to a halt now as Hungary’s fence is finished on the Croatian border as well.

During an interview with national broadcaster m1, Orban said the border with Croatia could be closed “within an hour if necessary”, Reuters news agency reported.

Hungary said on Friday it would close its southern border with Croatia from midnight.

“The best solution would be for Greece to honour its contractual obligations, and if it can not then we should do it for her”.

Szijjarto said that two “transit zones” will now be in operation for migrants to file asylum claims, and that “crossing the border fence will have criminal legal consequences”.

Over 383,000 migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia have entered Hungary this year, almost all passing through on their way to Germany and other destinations further west in the EU. Or they might be stranded in Croatia, where the weather is getting colder and the authorities are already struggling with the scale of the influx. He said Hungary had informed its southern neighbor, Slovenia, as well as Austria and Germany about the plans. “Within days you would end up having tens of thousands of people in Croatia and further down the Western Balkan route, in Serbia and Macedonia”.

Orban said he would hold talks with Visegrad Four partners Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, as well as bring up the issue again at a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday evening. The fence will be used to help streamline the heavy amount of migrants that are traveling to Hungary, according to Yahoo!

People disembark from a train in Botovo, on the Croatia-Hungary border, Friday, October 16, 2015.

“I did not know which country I was in until I saw the Hungarian flag on the uniform of police”, said Al Khalil, a 28-year-old Kurd from the Iraqi city of Mosul. Since Serbia is refusing to accept migrants expelled by Hungary, Al Khalil will join over 460 others awaiting expulsion in detention centers or in separated facilities inside Hungarian prisons.