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| EU migrant crisis: Road to Europe represents danger at every turn for desperate refugees | EU migrant crisis: Road to Europe represents danger at every turn for desperate refugees |
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| Germany has declared it is leading the way in Europe by opening its doors refugees - but for migrants fleeing the world’s deadliest warzones, nothing is ever that simple. | Germany has declared it is leading the way in Europe by opening its doors refugees - but for migrants fleeing the world’s deadliest warzones, nothing is ever that simple. |
| The road to Europe for the thousands travelling from the Middle East, Asia and Africa offers a range of roadblocks and diversion that prove deadly for some. | The road to Europe for the thousands travelling from the Middle East, Asia and Africa offers a range of roadblocks and diversion that prove deadly for some. |
| At the centre of attention now are attempts to build a six-foot fence the full length of the border between Serbia and Hungary, the effective frontline for the EU’s Schengen Area of free movement. | At the centre of attention now are attempts to build a six-foot fence the full length of the border between Serbia and Hungary, the effective frontline for the EU’s Schengen Area of free movement. |
| But that race for the border doesn’t paint the full story of a continent where migrants face a new obstacle at every turn. | But that race for the border doesn’t paint the full story of a continent where migrants face a new obstacle at every turn. |
| 1 Greek Islands | 1 Greek Islands |
| Coastguard rescues 877 over the weekend near islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Kos. Hundreds more make crossing using inflatable dinghies | Coastguard rescues 877 over the weekend near islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos and Kos. Hundreds more make crossing using inflatable dinghies |
| 2 Macedonia/Greek border | 2 Macedonia/Greek border |
| Violent scuffles as Macedonian police attempt to control the flow of hundreds of migrants entering from Greece | Violent scuffles as Macedonian police attempt to control the flow of hundreds of migrants entering from Greece |
| 3 Serbia | 3 Serbia |
| Thousands enter on foot from Macedonia, with 8,000 registering with Frontex in Presevo over 24 hours. Many take trains and buses towards Hungary | Thousands enter on foot from Macedonia, with 8,000 registering with Frontex in Presevo over 24 hours. Many take trains and buses towards Hungary |
| 4 Hungary | 4 Hungary |
| Rush to build anti-migrant barbed-wire fence along Serbian border, in effect the entry point to the EU | Rush to build anti-migrant barbed-wire fence along Serbian border, in effect the entry point to the EU |
| 5 Austria | 5 Austria |
| Two vans packed with migrants collide, injuring 37, near Hungarian border, dozens more flee police, as do suspected smugglers | Two vans packed with migrants collide, injuring 37, near Hungarian border, dozens more flee police, as do suspected smugglers |
| 6 Germany | 6 Germany |
| Dozens of police injured over weekend as neo-Nazis try to block opening of new asylum-seekers’ shelter near Dresden | Dozens of police injured over weekend as neo-Nazis try to block opening of new asylum-seekers’ shelter near Dresden |
| 7 Sweden | 7 Sweden |
| Signs of backlash over expected 74,000 asylum-seekers to arrive this year, many from Syria, as Roma are attacked | |
| 8 Calais, France | 8 Calais, France |
| Weekend Eurotunnel delays after migrants boarded train to Britain, despite security crackdown on number trying to enter terminal. | Weekend Eurotunnel delays after migrants boarded train to Britain, despite security crackdown on number trying to enter terminal. |