EU's Tusk tells migrants not to come

Mar 06, 2016, 21:55
EU's Tusk tells migrants not to come

More than 2,000 people arrive daily from Turkey to Greece, where many have been stranded as countries on the main migrant route through the Balkans are aiming to stop them moving north.

"They have been bombed in their homes, have risked their lives to escape to come to Greece, the gateway to Europe. It is all for nothing".

 Around 8,000 people have been stranded - many for more than a week - on the Greece-Macedonia border, in increasingly squalid conditions, with shortages of food, water, shelter and sanitation.

"Schengen and our union is at stake", he warned, as he called on member states to move from "unilateral decisions on reintroducing border controls towards a co-ordinated approach".

In the European Parliament, lawmakers welcomed the new financial tool for responding to the crisis, but Guy Verhofstadt, who leads the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats, said it was "far from being a solution" on its own.

Senior EU diplomats said that in negotiations on Thursday with Frans Timmermans, the vice-president of the European commission, Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu pledged that all "economic migrants" arriving in Greece and not qualifying for asylum could be returned to Turkey.

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"Other countries in the world are able to manage those numbers", UNHCR Europe bureau director Vincent Cochetel said Friday.

It is the first time the bloc has responded to a situation within its borders in the same way as it treats humanitarian disasters in developing countries.

A migrant climbs the border fence from Greece to Macedonia, after Macedonia closed its borders with Greece for Afghan migrants and demands additional identification from people seeking to cross the border and head to Western Europe, near the village of Idomeni, Greece, February 22, 2016.

With Macedonia tightly restricting passage across the border, only around 500 Syrian and Iraqi refugees have been allowed through since Tuesday, according to Greek police.

In response, Greece recalled its ambassador to Vienna, and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called Austria's behavior "unacceptable".

More than a million people came to Europe from countries including Syria, Iraq, Eritrea and Afghanistan past year and at least 133,000 have arrived on the continent so far in 2016.

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Others at the center in Sid said that they were turned back from the Croatian border because some data in the migrant documents issued on the Macedonian border with Greece did not match the data in their passports, such as misspelled or incomplete names or wrong birth dates.

The European Union on Friday unveiled a "roadmap" to end border controls reintroduced by member states because of the migrant crisis and restore by year's end the Schengen passport-free travel area.

The camp is a magnet for people hoping to reach Britain and many have refused to leave for other accommodation, although there has been no repeat of the violent clashes that erupted on Monday.

Following on from comments made earlier in the day by economy minister Emmanuel Macron, who suggested that France could end United Kingdom border controls in Calais, French President Francois Hollande verified that this could happen.

European Council President Donald Tusk, who will chair an emergency EU summit with Turkey on Monday, said after talks in Ankara he saw first signs that EU states were overcoming their differences to tackle the year-old crisis.

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