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| Refugee crisis: EU summit amid resentment over quota deal – live | Refugee crisis: EU summit amid resentment over quota deal – live |
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| Croatia has said it will bus another 4,000 refugees to the Hungarian border after announcing the number of new arrivals in Croatia has increased to 39,000 since Hungary sealed its border with Serbia last week. | |
| Interior minister Ranko Ostojic, made the announcement on a visit to the crowded Opatovac transit camp overnight, according to the Croatian news site HRT. | |
| Hungary has been accepting bus loads of refugees across its border with Croatia. It then buses the refugees to Austria. | |
| The Hungarian police reported more than 5,000 new arrivals on Tuesday after the number dropped to a few hundred last week. | |
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| Croatia’s interior minister Ranko Ostojic has promised thousands of refugees queuing at the Opatovac camp that they will be transferred. | |
| Crowded again at the entrance of Opatovac camp. Interior minister Ostojić: Maintain order, you'll all be transferred pic.twitter.com/w3taVbJzTG | |
| Some 4,000 people registered at the camp on Tuesday, according to the BBC’s Anna Holligan who filmed the scene on Periscope. | |
| LIVE on #Periscope: Opatovac transit camp - Syrians, Iraqis, Afghans... https://t.co/bS69HNpN63 | |
| Meanwhile, road traffic between Serbia and Croatia faces continued disruption after truck drives blocked the border crossing at Batrovci, when Croatia decided to allow a limited number of trucks to pass the border, according to Balkan Insight. | |
| At least 35,000 migrants, many of them Syrian refugees, have entered Croatia from Serbia since Tuesday last week, when Hungary sealed its border with Serbia. | |
| Since the end of last week, Croatia has been bussing new arrivals to the Hungarian border. Croatia says it cannot cope with the numbers, saying Serbia should send them to Hungary and Romania too. Reuters has more on the continuing border feud: | |
| Serbia gave Croatia until the end of Wednesday to lift the freight blockade or face political, legal and economic retaliation. | |
| Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he had spoken by phone with his Croatian counterpart, Zoran Milanovic, and that they would continue discussions to find a resolution. Without a deal by midnight on Wednesday, he said, Serbia would implement a package of measures against Zagreb. | |
| “I believe we will be able to agree with our neighbour,” Vucic said. But, he warned, “Serbia must reply to the destruction of its economic integrity and national policy.” | |
| Minutes before he spoke, the Croatian government said it had decided to ease the blockade to allow through only trucks carrying perishable goods. But frustrated drivers were livid, and as night fell they parked several trucks across the main Bajakovo-Batrovci crossing in no-man’s land, halting all road traffic. | |
| A new migrant crossing point emerged overnight at the Croatian village of Bapska, with hundreds seen walking through rolling hills to a new camp for 4,000 at Opatovac, which is fast reaching capacity. | |
| Several thousand more were waiting in no-man’s land between Sid in Serbia and Tovarnik in Croatia; some spent the night sleeping in a cemetery. | |
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| Mona Mahmood | Mona Mahmood |
| The Guardian’s Mona Mahmood has been speaking to Abu Maria, a 40-year-old father of four from Syria, who has just been granted asylum in Sweden | The Guardian’s Mona Mahmood has been speaking to Abu Maria, a 40-year-old father of four from Syria, who has just been granted asylum in Sweden |
| I had to leave the Za’atari camp in Jordan by any means. I needed medical treatment for my daughter, Maria, who suffers a mental disorder and has difficulty speaking. There was no proper medication or clean accommodation so her suffering was accute. | I had to leave the Za’atari camp in Jordan by any means. I needed medical treatment for my daughter, Maria, who suffers a mental disorder and has difficulty speaking. There was no proper medication or clean accommodation so her suffering was accute. |
| I had no choice but to smuggle myself to Greece on a crowded boat. I had to borrow $1,500 from a friend in Jordan. The Jordanian authorities were only too happy to allow me to leave. They gave me approval within a day. | I had no choice but to smuggle myself to Greece on a crowded boat. I had to borrow $1,500 from a friend in Jordan. The Jordanian authorities were only too happy to allow me to leave. They gave me approval within a day. |
| My plan was to take Maria with me to Europe, but after the drowning of the Syrian kid, Alan Kurdi, I decided to leave her with her mother in Jordan. It took me 15 days to get to Sweden after crossing Greece, Macedonia, Hungary and Germany. | My plan was to take Maria with me to Europe, but after the drowning of the Syrian kid, Alan Kurdi, I decided to leave her with her mother in Jordan. It took me 15 days to get to Sweden after crossing Greece, Macedonia, Hungary and Germany. |
| I wish I could have gone to England as I speak English, but my friends warned me that I would end up in Calais for months and never be able to get to England. They said that the police were checking lorries and trains heading to England and I might end in jail. | I wish I could have gone to England as I speak English, but my friends warned me that I would end up in Calais for months and never be able to get to England. They said that the police were checking lorries and trains heading to England and I might end in jail. |
| I went to the immigration centre in Gothenburg as soon as I stepped off the the ferry to Sweden. To my surprise, I found more than 300 refugee already in a queue. The Swedish authorities took us to a hotel to stay over night and come to apply again on Tuesday. | I went to the immigration centre in Gothenburg as soon as I stepped off the the ferry to Sweden. To my surprise, I found more than 300 refugee already in a queue. The Swedish authorities took us to a hotel to stay over night and come to apply again on Tuesday. |
| I’m so glad to be in Sweden. I can breathe freedom now. I was suffocating in Jordan. | I’m so glad to be in Sweden. I can breathe freedom now. I was suffocating in Jordan. |
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| The European Commission has published a useful guide to how the refugee quota system will work. It sets out the individual quotas of refugee that each country will take under the plan. Despite objections from four central European countries they will also be forced to take their share of refugees. Here are the quotas for the dissenting countries: | The European Commission has published a useful guide to how the refugee quota system will work. It sets out the individual quotas of refugee that each country will take under the plan. Despite objections from four central European countries they will also be forced to take their share of refugees. Here are the quotas for the dissenting countries: |
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| Summary | Summary |
| Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the refugee crisis as an EU summit is set to agree a deal to resettle 120,000 across Europe in the face of opposition from central European states. | Welcome to our continuing live coverage of the refugee crisis as an EU summit is set to agree a deal to resettle 120,000 across Europe in the face of opposition from central European states. |
| Here’s a roundup of the latest developments: | Here’s a roundup of the latest developments: |