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ลำดับตอนที่ #43 : Migrant crisis: EU meeting seeks to heal growing rifts
Ministers
from EU and Balkan nations are meeting in Brussels to try to heal rifts over migrants that
have plunged common
policy into chaos.
Austria,
Serbia and Macedonia have taken their own steps to limit entry to migrants,
angering Greece, which fears the controls will cause a bottleneck.
A
surge in migration,
and the failure to agree an EU-wide response, have led to warnings about the
bloc's survival.
More
than 100,000 migrants have reached Europe this year, most via the Balkans.
European
Council president Donald Tusk has warned that the failure to make progress
towards resolving the crisis could increase the likelihood of the UK voting to
leave the EU this year.
The
EU interior ministers meeting in Brussels will hear plans drawn up by Austria
and eight Balkan countries that seek to restrict the numbers entering their
borders.
An
official from the current Dutch presidency of the EU told the AFP news agency
that the purpose of Thursday's meetings would be "to allow us to avoid
surprises - we have to avoid that one country is surprised by the measures
taken by another."
In
separate developments:
§ Ships from a Nato
mission fighting human-trafficking in the Aegean Sea will work with Turkish and
Greek coastguards, according to a new agreement, overcoming territorial
tensions between the two neighbours
§ A French judge is to
decide whether to implement
or postpone an eviction
order for up to 1,000 migrants under plans to demolish part of the Calais "Jungle"
camp
§ Belgium has detained
80 migrants on the French border since imposing controls on Monday evening, officials
say. Many of the migrants are thought to have come from Calais
§ Germany expects to
accommodate 3.6m migrants by 2020, German media reported, quoting internal
government estimates
The
new measures - from Austria and its Balkan partners - include fingerprinting
all entrants and
turning back anyone without a passport or holding fake documents.
The
countries have also pledged
to accept only those they deem
to be in need of protection, which has already been interpreted by some governments as meaning
only Syrians and Iraqis.
Macedonia
enacted the
measures at its border with Greece over the weekend, barring entry to Afghans, who make up many
of the migrants.
Austrian
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner described the measures as a "chain
reaction of reason" and warned that the crisis could threaten the EU's
survival if it was not brought under control.
Sebastian
Kurz, the Austrian foreign minister told German TV that Europe had to
"abandon this goal of allowing in unlimited numbers".
"We
in Austria are overwhelmed," he said. "It cannot be that all migrants
make their applications for asylum in Western Europe."
Analysis - BBC Europe Correspondent Chris Morris
The air is thick with recrimination as
ministers meet to try to save a common migration policy that is threatening to
collapse in disarray.
The situation is bad, said one senior diplomat, and getting worse.
A
number of countries have followed Austria's example in imposing unilateral border
measures to try to restrict the flow of migrants and refugees seeking asylum. Other countries
want to shift the focus back onto common solutions, such as sharing the burden
of hosting arriving refugees more widely.
But
the plans drew sharp criticism from Greece, which threatened to block all
decisions at EU migration summits
next month if member states did not agree to take in quotas of migrants.
Greek
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said his country was turning into a
"permanent warehouse of souls" and should not be left to deal with
the crisis alone.
"From
now on, Greece will not agree to deals if we do not secure the mandatory sharing of the burden and responsibility
proportionally
among member states," Mr Tsipras said.
The
UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has also criticised the measures. "The response
is not closures, it is co-operation," said the agency's head, Filippo
Grandi. "Everybody has to take a share of this burden."
Last September, EU ministers agreed plans to relocate 120,000
migrants from Italy, Greece and Hungary to other EU countries. But the majority
vote decision was opposed by
Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary.
On
Wednesday Hungary announced it would hold a referendum on accepting mandatory
EU migrant quotas. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stressed that the
quotas "could redraw
Europe's cultural and religious identity".
In
an interview with German newspaper Bild, he said Europe was paying Turkey to
secure its borders as it could not protect them itself.
"This
policy makes Europe's future and security reliant on the goodwill of Turkey," he
warned.
The
referendum is expected to be held in the autumn, subject to parliamentary approval.
More than 100,000 migrants have arrived in Greece and Italy so
far this year, theInternational
Organization for Migration (IOM) said.
More
than 400 migrants died attempting to make the journey during the same period,
the IOM said.
A note on terminology: The BBC
uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to
complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn
countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well
as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to
rule are economic migrants.
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