Member states of the Council of Europe
Serbia Ready to Follow Suit if Others on Balkan Migrant Route Close Borders
If some countries on the so-called Balkan route close their borders to asylum seekers, Serbia will have to do the same on its border with Macedonia, Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has said.
"Those people will not be able to be stationed here," Serbian broadcaster b92 quoted Dacic as saying after a meeting with his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz in Belgrade on Tuesday.
Greece agrees on NATO migration patrols in Aegean Sea
There is no official statement issued by the Ministry of Defense in order to announce the decisions taken at today’s NATO meeting.
However, ANA-MPA news agency citing a government source reported that Greece welcomed NATO’s involvement in dealing with refugee and migration flows as long as the country’s sovereignty is respected.
Macedonia Calls for EU-wide Solution to Migrant Crisis
Macedonia won't allow to be turned into a refugee camp, the country's Foreign Minister Nikola Poposki has stated, referring to the influx of asylum seekers transiting the Balkan country from Greece on their way to the EU.
"Dual education to help tackle unemployment"
"Countries with a developed dual education system do not have a problem with youth unemployment, and Serbia has recognized this," says Christoph Leitl.
The president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber is on a two-day visit to Belgrade as of Monday.
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EU ready to seal Greece-FYROM border
EU member states examine the details of a controversial plan, which includes sending border guards and even troops to FYROM’s border with Greece in an effort to stop the flow of migrants entering northern Europe, as the Financial Times writes.
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Serbia Urges Unified Solution to Refugee Crisis
The world has to be united in its decisions on Syria - and Serbia will accept any European solution on the refugee issue, Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told a conference of world leaders in London dedicated to the Syrian crisis on Thursday.
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Minister reacts to Croatia's conditions for Nikolic's visit
If it's true that President Tomislav Nikolic's visit to Croatia is being conditioned in any way, then this visit should not take place, says Aleksandar Vulin.
A third of migrants sailing to Greece from Turkey are children: UNICEF
Children now make up over a third of the migrants making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, the U.N. said.
For the first time since the start of the migrant crisis in Europe, there are also now more women and children crossing the border from Greece to Macedonia than adult males, according to U.N. children's agency UNICEF.
"Nikolic's Zagreb trip wasn't arranged, can't be postponed"
Croatian media reports about the postponement of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic's visit to that country amount to "media spinning."
The reason is that the visit was never arranged in the first place, Belgrade daily Politika said it learned from Nikolic's cabinet.
One Serbian PKK sniper killed, another captured in Turkey's southeast
A Serbian sniper of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) was killed while another was captured alive, daily Vatan has reported, while claiming at least five other hit men are currently operating in southeastern Turkey.
Reports indicate that a sniper of Serbian nationality was captured dead during an operation in southeastern ??rnak's Cizre province on Jan. 29.