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The U-N warns Europe's on "the brink of a humanitarian crisis largely of its own doing." Monday saw Macedonian police tear gas migrants who'd rammed through the closed border with Greece. They're now caught in a bottleneck with two-thousand arriving each day via Turkey and the Aegean Sea. As Angela Merkel calls for the restoration of the Schengen open borders agreement, is a common refugee policy among 28 mission impossible? Will the future of the E-U play out in Greece?
The U-N warns Europe's on "the brink of a humanitarian crisis largely of its own doing." Monday saw Macedonian police tear gas migrants who'd rammed through the closed border with Greece. They're now caught in a bottleneck with two-thousand arriving each day via Turkey and the Aegean Sea. As Angela Merkel calls for the restoration of the Schengen open borders agreement, is a common refugee policy among 28 mission impossible? Will the future of the E-U play out in Greece?
Ankara insists it follows international law, but if a migrant qualifies for refugee status they cannot be ruled to have broken the law by crossing a border.
Lawmakers in Poland have approved a proposal to build a barrier on its border with Belarus in attempt to reduce the flow of migrants using the route to enter the EU.
A 2.5-metre-tall fence will be erected along most of the 150-kilometre border, with construction due to begin next week.
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