Serbia, Macedonia call at Balkans summit for EU action on migrants

The Guardian Nigeria|AFP

Serbia and Macedonia’s foreign ministers called for EU action on Europe’s migrant crisis at a summit Thursday of leaders from the western Balkans, attended by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Both have become major transit countries for tens of thousands of migrants trying to reach the European Union in recent months, with Macedonia last week forced to declare a state of emergency.
“We are faced with the biggest refugee crisis since World War II. It is a true migration of peoples and Serbia is a transit country,” Serbia’s Ivica Dacic told a news conference at the event in Vienna.

“This is a problem of the European Union and we (the transit countries) are expected to come up with an action plan,” he said.

“I think the European Union has to come up with a plan first,” he said. “I have to be very direct here. We are bearing the brunt of the problem.”