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| Europe |
| Holding the line against the invaders |
| 2016-05-31 |
| Hungary Bolsters Anti-Migrant Fence on Serbia Border [AnNahar] Hungary said Monday it had begun reinforcing its anti-migrant fence on the Serbian border following an increase in arrivals after the evacuation of Idomeni camp on the Greece-Macedonia frontier. Last week, Greek officials moved some 8,400 people from the squalid, makeshift Idomeni encampment to reception centres elsewhere in the country. But Hungarian authorities said some people had managed to make their way up the migrant route, despite the border closure imposed in mid February by many Balkan states in a bid to halt the influx to northern Europe. An AFP photographer on the Serbian side of the border spotted between 200 and 250 people waiting to enter Hungary on Monday. An AFP photographer on the Serbian side of the border spotted between 200 and 250 people waiting to enter Hungary on Monday. Bulgaria stops 100 migrants at Greek border [AlAhram] Bulgaria has for the first time blocked around a hundred Both groups were stopped on Saturday in what was the largest number of people caught trying to enter the eastern European country since the start of the migrant crisis. "Their return was carried out at a record speed for Europe," said Prime Minister Boyko Borisov after meeting border police and an army unit in the southwestern town of Blagoevgrad. The Afghans were returned to Greece the same day, while the other 40 are being investigated and will likely be sent back in the coming week, Borisov said. The In order to manage any further incidents, a contingent of 65 soldiers equipped with 4x4 vehicles would be deployed along the western part of the Greek border to back up the border police, he said. Bulgaria's border with Greece is nearly 500 kilometres (300 miles) long, and it also shares a 260-kilometre (160 mile) frontier with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... So far, Sofia has concentrated on buttressing its Turkish frontier, speeding up construction of a 132-kilometre (820-mile) fence which is some three metres (10 foot) high. But earlier this year, Borisov said the Greek frontier was "the major threat", saying if necessary, Sofia would erect a barrier there too. Situated on the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's eastern flank, Bulgaria registered 5,010 asylum seekers this year, among them Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans. |
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