Scores more were rescued near the island of Farmakonisi in the southeastern Aegean Sea, as would-be asylum seekers continue struggling to reach Europe. Nearly 3,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says.
Meanwhile, Austrian police say they rescued 42 people believed to be migrants stowed in a refrigerated flower truck on a highway near the German border on Sunday. Two Iraqis suspected as smugglers were arrested, police said.
Authorities are on high alert after the decomposing remains of 71 people believed to be migrants were found on an eastern Austrian highway last month.
More than 430,000 migrants, including refugees from Syria and Iraq, have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe so far in 2015, according to the IOM.
Austria to Germany train service suspended
German police say some 12,200 refugees seeking asylum in the European Union flooded into the southern German city of Munich Saturday, and authorities fear many of them will be spending their nights outdoors because they have nowhere else to go.
Train service from Austria to Germany was suspended Sunday, rail officials in both countries announced, as Europe grapples with the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Travel in the other direction, from Germany to Austria, was unclear, a spokeswoman for Austrian rail company OeBB said.
On Friday at a meeting in Prague, the foreign ministers of Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia refused entreaties by their counterparts from wealthier Germany and Luxembourg to accept mandatory migrant quotas, despite the endorsement by the United Nations of a plan that would allow for the distribution of 160,000 migrants among the 28 EU member nations.
Romania's interior minister on Sunday said his country will not meet the European Union request to take an additional 4,650 people more than the 1,785 asylum seekers it initially agreed to.
Interior Minister Gabriel Oprea says he has a "very clear mandate" from the president and prime minister to refuse the request. He spoke Sunday ahead of an interior ministers' meeting Monday in Brussels on Europe's migration crisis.
He also said Romania will vote against having obligatory migrant quotas for EU nations.
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13/9/15
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Deutschland führt offenbar Grenzkontrollen ein ...
ReplyDeleteAls Reaktion auf den anhaltenden Andrang von Flüchtlingen führt die Bundesregierung laut übereinstimmenden Medienberichten vorübergehend Grenzkontrollen ein. Betroffen soll die Grenze zu Österreich sein. Zudem soll der Zugverkehr von und nach Österreich gestoppt werden.
Die Bundesregierung will laut Medienberichten als Reaktion auf die Flüchtlingskrise vorübergehend wieder Grenzkontrollen einführen. Betroffen sei vorerst die Grenze zwischen Deutschland und Österreich, meldet die "Bild"-Zeitung unter Berufung auf Sicherheitskreise. Die Landesregierung in Bayern habe zur Bewältigung der Aufgabe Unterstützung durch die Bundespolizei angefordert, heißt es weiter. "Spiegel Online" berichtet von geplanten Kontrollen an den südlichen Grenzen. Laut "Passauer Neue Presse" wird die Bundesregierung den Zugverkehr von und nach Österreich stoppen. Bayern habe vom Bund 21 Hundertschaften der Bundespolizei zur Unterstützung angefordert.
Eine Bestätigung der Bundesregierung gibt es bislang nicht. Bundesinnenminister Thomas de Maizière kündigte für 17.30 Uhr eine Stellungnahme zur Flüchtlingslage an.
http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/deutschland-grenzkontrollen-101.html
13/9/15
At least 28 people drowned in another migrant tragedy off Greece on Sunday, as Athens angrily defended its handling of the mounting refugee crisis in Europe...
ReplyDeleteAmong those who lost their lives was a baby, the Athens News Agency reported, when the stricken boat carrying 112 people sank off off the southern Aegean island of Farmakonisi.
A search and rescue effort is under way in the area, the coastguard said, giving an updated death toll of 28 dead.
Another 68 people were plucked alive from the sea while a further 29 managed to swim to safety on a beach on the island, it said.
The coastguard was also still searching for four children missing after another boat capsized on Sept. 12 off Samos, a Greek island just off the Turkish coast.....AFP