Aftermath of war

Between 400 and 600 refugees from the Middle East and Africa pass through the southern Serbian town of Presevo every day.

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Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday said his country is willing to accept a share of the 40,000 refugees, mainly from Syria and Eritrea, who recently arrived in Greece and Italy, which Brussels wants distributed round the EU.

Milanovic made the offer ahead of an EU summit dominated by migration issues and the Greek crisis.

Serbia is one of the five world countries with a protracted refugee situation - and has had more than 22,000 asylum requests in the first five months of 2015.

This date was presented by the Commissariat for Refugees and Migration.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has once again criticized western countries for their response to the global refugee crisis, describing it as a ?crime against humanity.?

?We now have over two million refugees; we could not have left them under the bombs,? Erdo?an said June 21 at a meeting in Istanbul. 

Hollywood actress and director Angelina Jolie on June 20 described a spiralling global refugee crisis as an "explosion of human suffering" whose causes the international community refuses to confront.

Turkish President Erdo?an meets with Hollywood star Jolie, and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Guterres to mark the World Refugees Day Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an met June 20 with Hollywood star and U.N.'s Goodwill Ambassador for refugees, Angelina Jolie, and U.N.

French President Francois Hollande said June 19 that he thought commitments by individual EU member states offered a better way of resettling African and Middle Eastern migrants rather than the imposition of national quotas by Brussels. 

The U.N.?s refugee chief on June 18 urged the international community, including Western states, to open up their borders and follow Turkey?s example in hosting Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

More than 3,700 migrants were captured across Turkey by security forces in just one month, according to unofficial data.

At least 3,737 migrants, including many Syrians, were captured by Turkish security forces en route to European countries. A majority of these migrants attempted to cross into Europe via the Aegean Sea and through borders in the northwestern provinces of Turkey.

The new border policy of Bulgaria has been discussed in a BBC article. The border police post at Elhovo is the starting point.

Now that a razor-wire fence 1,5 meters thick is now extending along the Southern border with Turkey, Bulgarian officials reportedly believe that the measure is a safer and more effective way to deal with the increased refugee influx to the EU.