Migrant dies on Greek-Macedonian border in second day of clashes

Greece asked for European help on Thursday to secure its borders and care for crowds of migrants, defusing threats from EU allies to bar it from the passport-free Schengen zone if it failed to get a grip.

A 22-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker was electrocuted to death by accident when he touched a power cable after jumping off a train Thursday at the neutral zone between Greece and Macedonia.

“Some 1,500 people, mostly from Pakistan, Iran and Morocco, have been Greece%E2%80%99s+Border+with+Macedonia#sthash.IxOUPTgm.dpuf” stranded near the Greek border town of Idomeni for more than a week, demanding to cross into Macedonia en route to western and northern Europe.

Stranded migrants shouts slogans next a covered body of a man…

With hundreds of cargo carriages remaining idle across the borderline and companies are losing millions of euros as Athens blasts Macedonia for “violation of the worldwide legal framework”.

Aleksandar Vucic said at the opening Thursday of a ministerial conference of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that the meeting should come up with joint conclusions and recommendations.

Macedonian police has used tear gas to push back illegalmigrantswho tried to storm through the country’sborderwithGreeceon Wednesday.

Macedonia has stopped allowing migrants to cross the border unless they are from Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan and considered to be refugees.

Greece will be under significant pressure in the upcoming December 17 European Council summit to convince European partners that all necessary measures are being implemented. Eli would not give his surname for fear of reprisals for manning a roadblock.

Greek authorities have been struggling to accurately register all the migrants entering the country, and mistakes are frequent.

Exhausted of waiting, thousands of migrants then broke through a Greek police cordon, surging to the Macedonian border, which immediately closed again.

Mouzalas said he hopes to have cleared up the impasse at the Macedonian border in “four or five days”.

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said that he conveyed a suspension warning when he visited Athens this week, but he urged Greece to work with European Union agencies so it wouldn’t be dismissed from Schengen. “Obviously, (the solution) will not be a stroll in the woods… nobody likes to see the use of violence or anything else”.

The boat was carrying a total of seven migrants, and the coast guard says three survivors were pulled from the sea after Thursday’s capsizing off the island of Farmakonissi.

A day ago, Mouzalas said some in the European Union “mistakenly believe that the refugee flow can be controlled from Greece”.

“Greece is the start of the corridor”.