Slovenia Considers Using Military to Aid Flow of Migrants

Croatian police said more than 5,000 migran…

Migrants are seen inside a bus at a Croatia-Slovenia border crossing in Lendava, Slovenia October 17, 2015.

Croatia has said it will now redirect the migrants toward Slovenia, its other neighbor.

First Hungary erected a wire-fence along the border with Serbia.

Slovenia said it was drafting in the army to help police cope with the influx. Croatian police said more than… He adds “the capacity of this new journey is not enough”. “Of course that brings an additional concern that people will be left stuck without basic protection”, a United Nations aid worker said. Pinos says refugees “have been waiting here for many hours and they are exhausted”. “You do not have to be the prime minister to know that this is absolutely impossible”.

The bishops sent the letter to Cameron in September, but released it publicly after failing to receive what they described as an adequate response. A fence along the frontier has already been built to prevent unauthorized crossings. “I am in favor of our doing this”.

Budapest also announced that it was reintroducing border controls with Slovenia-a significant step, as both countries are members of the EU’s visa-free Schengen area.

Slovenia has said it would strengthen border controls and create entry points for migrants to manage the influx, but would keep accepting migrants as long as Austria and Germany kept their borders open. Migrants could still apply for asylum in Hungary at two border transit zones, Szijjarto said. It wants the union to put more effort into protecting its external borders, particularly the boundary with Greece, where the majority of asylum seekers arrive by boat from Turkey, before heading north through Macedonia and Serbia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to travel to Turkey on Sunday for talks on the refugee crisis with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Turkish leader also challenged the European Union to take Ankara’s bid for European Union membership more seriously.

Referring to the large proportion of refugees and migrants who are muslim, he said: “Spiritually, Islam was never part of Europe”. “The challenge is not to seal ourselves off when we are living in a globalized world”.

Hungarian police and soldiers sealed its border with Croatia barbed wire shortly before 1:00am (2300 GMT Friday), after the last 1,500 or so migrants to arrive by train on the Croatian side trudged silently through mud over the informal Zakany crossing, and AFP correspondent said. Slovenia’s government is scheduled to hold a meeting later in the day.

According to Slovenian authorities, several hundred migrants entered the country on Saturday, reported Reuters news agency.