Greek coast guard rescues hundreds of migrants, refugees

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic has accused neighbors Serbia and Hungary of hatching a plot to rid themselves of refugees by forcing them to go through Croatia. Angry truck drivers then blockaded the remaining open border crossing.

Criticising Hungary’s approach, Milanovic said: “I don’t know if we speak the same language at all, if we think in the same way”. Hungarians would often are wedged between an excessively forbearing West plus a responsible Greece that has definitely inability apply Ecu principles on…

A municipality worker clears the area around tents at Victoria square, where many migrants stay temporarily before trying to continue their trip to more prosperous northern European countries, in Athens, Monday, September 28, 2015.

Budapest built a razor-wire fence along its entire borders with neighbors, after sealing off its border with Serbia, in a bid to keep refugees out.

Migrants walk to the Austrian – Hungarian border near Hegyeshalom, …

“Students come, and a few people take time out of their holiday to help”, Popovic said in a small park beside Belgrade’s bus and train stations, a key transit point where thousands of refugees slept this summer.

“There are clear European regulations saying that member-states have to defend the external borders,” he said.

Asylum-seekers are slogging through rain and mud-caked roads in Croatia, as worsening fall weather plagues their journeys.

Volunteers from the United Nations High Commissioner from Refugees handed out blankets, warm drinks and food to those fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The worldwide Organisation for Migration (IOM) says a record number of people have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, straining the 28-nation European Union and prompting a wave of border closures.

A few 85,000 people have entered Croatia in the past two weeks and fears are growing about the travels of thousands more still on the move.