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EU to declare Balkans migrant route ‘closed’
http://www.france24.com/en/20160307-eu-declare-balkans-migrant-route-closed
Migrants rush to receive clothes delivered by locals at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni, on March 6, 2016.
EU to declare Balkans migrant route ‘closed’
Latest update : 2016-03-07
European Union leaders will on Monday back closing down the Balkans route used by most migrants to reach Europe, diplomats said, after at least 25 more people drowned trying to cross the Aegean Sea en route to Greece.
The declaration drafted by EU ambassadors Sunday will be announced at a summit in Brussels on Monday, set to also be attended by Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
The bloc's 28 leaders will ask Davutoglu's government to accept "large-scale" deportations of economic migrants from Greece, the main entry point to Europe, and do more to implement a November deal to slow the flow of people into the bloc.
Greece has seen non-EU Macedonia and EU countries on the western Balkans route virtually shut their borders in a domino effect, trapping Syrian and other asylum seekers desperate to head north to wealthy Germany and Scandinavia.
