BRUSSELS – The greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has threatened to veto on the conclusions of the EU summit, in fact, so even on a possible EU-Gb agreement, if there will be changes to the current situation operational border. The Greek sources report. However the meeting with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande this morning, Tsipras would have obtained guarantees that the situation will not change until the March summit. Today Austria applies the roofs to reception and transit of asylum seekers, and similar measures have been announced from Slovenia, Serbia and Macedonia.
Yesterday, during the dinner of EU leaders behind closed doors has been discussed “cascade of consequences that will be triggered by del’Austria measures in the region of the Western Balkans and between the humanitarian risk” in Greece, an EU source said. Vienna fact – despite the criticism of the European Commission and to discussion with other leaders – will apply from today its decisions on daily roofs for refugees, by limiting to 80 days the asylum applications, and 3200 transits to neighboring countries.
“We decided to accommodate 37,500 asylum seekers this year . If every country decided the same line” in proportion to the population “we could distribute more than 2 million refugees.” He said the Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann. “We are a country that has always been very pro-European, which has also always given help when needed, in the Hungarian crisis in the former Yugoslav crisis. Last year we took 90 thousand people. Now we did not say that this will not take any quest ‘ year. We have said that we shall take more than 37 thousand, the rest is up to others. “
Slovenia also made it known that it will adopt similar measures , and the same applies to Serbia and Macedonia. Among the effects of this scenario, the risk of a humanitarian crisis, along the route, but particularly in Greece. To this end, “the European Council – it reads in the conclusions – now considered necessary to endow the EU the ability to provide humanitarian aid to internally, in cooperation with organizations such as the UNHCR, to support countries that are facing a high number of refugees and migrants. “
” the full and speedy implementation of the action plan EU-Turkey remains one priority in order to reduce migration flows and to counteract “the traffickers, it reads in the conclusions of the EU summit on migrants. But the number of arrivals “in Greece from Turkey continue to be too high.” Necessary to arrive at a “substantial and sustainable reduction” and why “will make more decisive efforts – also required by Turkey – to ensure the effective implementation of the Action Plan”. To this end the dinner behind closed doors of the EU leaders devoted to the refugee crisis, it was decided to convene a summit with Ankara in early March. The date is yet to be established but it should be between 5 and 7 March.
“I hope that the meeting with Turkey will take place as soon as possible” as it is ” crucial to find a solution “to the crisis of migrants. So the President of the EP Martin Schulz on his arrival at the second day of the EU summit dedicated to ‘Brexit’. “To get to a solution is needed for the full implementation of the package of measures” of the EU-Turkey Plan and to ensure “above all, the protection of external borders” in Europe, he stressed. For this, he concluded Schulz, “we need to set a date” with Ankara “as soon as possible, is the best way to resolve this conflict” on refugees.
Meanwhile from Budapest comes the message that the threat of the Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to cut the European funds to those countries, especially Europe, that block of migrants ricollocamenti is “political blackmail.” This was stated by spokesman of the Hungarian government of Viktor Orban, Zoltan Kovacc, quoted by the Tanjug press. Hungary, stressed the spokesman commenting on yesterday’s Renzi to the European Council in Brussels, is opposed to the quota system for the redistribution of refugees within the European Union.
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