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Hungary can seal off its border with Croatia as it did with Serbia but is waiting for Austria and Germany to decide whether they want to let more migrants in, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Thursday. Going back to the border crossing with Hungary which...

Ivan Usmiani, Croatian Red Cross Coordinator in Opatovac, said Red Cross volunteers have been working 24 hours a day, providing food, water, psychosocial support as well as family tracing services to all vulnerable migrants who come into Croatia.

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.

Finland was the only European Union state to abstain from this week’s vote about relocating asylum seekers across the member countries. At the same time, the chancellor emphasized that European standards for accommodation, care and asylum processing must be respected.

Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec says Friday that Slovenia was not informed in advance of Hungary’s move and that the fence was “not necessary”.

Bulgaria pleaded with Croatia on Friday to immediately open the Bajakovo crossing at the border with Serbia to Bulgarian-registered motor vehicles or redirect them to other operating checkpoints.

It said that 66,000 asylum-seekers will be relocated from Greece and Italy, and 54,000 more in a year’s time. The Romanian news agency reported the country would have to take an extra 2,475 refugees. “They have to stay in the country they were distributed to”,...

Anadolu said the refugees would be returned to the provinces where they registered.

The Hungarian government posted ads in Lebanese and Jordanian newspapers on Monday, threatening to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his “personal initiative” would see “generous” European Union quotas to bring in refugees from crisis-hit regions and spread them around the continent.

One suggestion is for Greece, which has comprehensively failed to secure its borders, to hand over their border-control responsibilities to other more capable nations – a role for which Hungary has volunteered itself, reports N-TV.de. “When a government loses control...

Their nationalities were not immediately known.

It also urged the government to ensure the provision of monetary funds and a legal framework for the country to defend its border, using all possible means.

A diplomatic row escalated in Europe on Sunday as governments clashed over how to handle migrants making their way across the continent.