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IOM, UN Call for Additional Reception Capacity along Migrants' Balkan Route

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Friday urged the countries lying along the so-called Balkans route used by migrants and refugee to reach western Europe to to put in place additional reception capacity at the points of entry and to allow for decent and effective accommodation.

Balkan Countries to Bar 'Economic' Migrants

Aleksandar Vulin, Serbia's minister for refugees, on Thursday said Serbia would no longer allow in "economic" migrants after Slovenia and Croatia announced they had barred such migrants from their countries.

Four Balkan states shut their borders to economic migrants

Four states along Europe's Balkan refugee corridor shut their borders on Nov. 19 to those not coming from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq, leaving thousands of others seeking a better life in Europe stranded at border crossings.

Serbia now letting only "refugees from war" cross border

Serbia and Macedonia have started to limit the passage of "refugees who are not coming from war-affected areas of Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan."

Balkan Leaders Condemn Xenophobia After Paris Attacks

Authorities in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia said they are on heightened alert about possible militants concealing themselves among the refugees using the Balkan route to reach Western Europe after unconfirmed reports that one of the Paris attack suspects passed through the region.

Two men linked to Paris attacks registered as migrants in Greece

Greek authorities confirmed on Saturday that two men investigated by the French police in connection with the Paris attacks had passed through Greece. French authorities had asked for a passport check and fingerprinting of a man who died in the attacks as well as those of another.

25 year old Ahmed Almuhamed entered Serbia Oct 7 from Greece, then to Croatia, Austria, France.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE This is the terrorist who passed through Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Austria? TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE OF PARIS

One of eight terrorists responsible for the Paris attacks on Friday night travelled with Syrian passport among other refugees through the Balkans migrant route, Blic.rs reports.

Hungary Ready to Build Fence on Border with Romania if Needed

Hungary is ready to erect another barrier on its borders to deter a flow of migrants, this time on the border with Romania, a senior official has said.

"We are ready and capable of setting up yet another border fence within a short period of time," Janos Lazar, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said at a news conference on Thursday, according to portfolio.hu

Croatia Demands Action on EU Refugee Plan

Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic on Thursday said Croatia was demanding am EU meeting in order to implement the European Commission plan on refugees.

Slovenia Starts Building Fence on Croatia Border

The Slovenian military started to set up a barbed wire fence on the border with Croatia on Wednesday, media reports confirmed. The Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar announced the move on Tuesday.

The fence is being built to stop Middle-Eastern refugees from illegally entering the country using informal border crossings and divert the refugees to regular border crossings.

Frontex Reports 1.2 Million Illegal Border Crossings into EU in January-October

Frontex has reported a total of 1.2 million illegal border crossings at the EU's external borders in the first ten months of this year, which is four times the 282 000 recorded for the whole of 2014.

More than 540 000 migrants have arrived on the Greek islands between January and October, which was 13 times more than in the same period last year.

EU Mulls Migrant 'Processing Centres' in Balkans

Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn has asked EU interior ministers to consider ways to set up facilities in western Balkans states to screen some of the tens of thousands of asylum seekers who enter Greece and head north, mostly to Germany, Reuters reported.