Slovenia says nearly 200000 people pass through

Austria had initially planned to install a 25-kilometre fence but “our Slovenian colleagues have asked us to not do this immediately”, said Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner. Police estimated the ring’s total earnings at around 500,000 euros ($537,000). “This is the official Hungarian position”, Lazar said. Slovenia insists will not seal off entry but the move shows European countries are increasingly acting on their own.

Meanwhile, the Slovenian troops are gearing up to put up razor fence along the border with Croatia for the “control the flow of the refugee”.

Bulgaria has erected a fence and deployed troops on the border. Greece has a short fence with Turkey as well, finding that a river was not enough of a deterrent. The European Union predicts that three million more could arrive by 2017.

With European countries increasingly divided over how to address the influx, Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, warned on Thursday that passport-free travel through most of Europe across the so-called Schengen area could soon be curtailed.

“Saving Schengen is a race against time and we are determined to win that race”, Tusk said at the end of an EU-Africa summit in Malta on Thursday. “I have no doubt without effective control of our external borders, the Schengen rules will not survive”.

“We must hurry but without panic”.

Hungary is ready to erect another barrier on its borders to deter a flow of migrants, this time on the border with Romania, a senior official has said.

Slovenia and Austria are the latest countries in Europe to introduce tighter border controls to try to limit the influx of refugees from war-torn nations like Syria and Iraq.

He made clear that unlike neighboring Hungary, Slovenia would not close its borders for refugees. Minister Vesna Pusic said Thursday a formal protest note will be lodged with Slovenia later in the day. “If they do not, we will send them a diplomatic protest, and then physically remove the fence”, Ostojic said. Both countries are already locked in an old territorial dispute dating from the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. The small Alpine nation says it is overwhelmed by the refugee surge.

The presidents of Croatia and Slovenia will host the meeting. The foreign ministry insisted that Slovenia remove the fence.

Despite the influx and pledges of action, European Union nations have been slow to move.

The country of 2 million has started putting up a razor-wire fence on the border with Croatia, which has fueled tensions between the two neighbors.

The report released on Friday says one group spoke of a gun being held to a migrant’s forehead, police taking their valuables, food and water and releasing dogs on them, after which seven people went missing. Despite most of the migrants continuing their journey onto northern Europe, Austria still expects a record 95,000 asylum claims this year, making it one of the highest recipients on a per capita basis.

Mr. Pluim said resettling migrants directly from the Middle East and Africa would be a more manageable policy than waiting for them to reach Europe.

The Centre Party, a member of the center-right opposition alliance, has criticized the decision by center-left Prime Minister Stefan Lofven, saying it ends an open-door tradition. “It will just make our trip more risky and deadly, but we have nowhere to return”.

The Europeans huddled after the summit for informal talks about how to cope with their biggest migrant emergency in decades.