Member states of the Council of Europe

Austria's decision to limit the number of asylum-seekers crossing its borders is "capitulation of dogmatic thinking to reality and common sense", Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.

Europe cannot accept huge masses of foreigners without setting limits and controls, Orban told public broadcaster Kossulth Radio on Friday, according to hungarytoday.hu.

The authorities of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) opened the border at Idomeni. Authorities say that they closed the crossing for refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria on Tuesday following the notification from Slovenian authorities of a serious technical problem in the Slovenian railway network.

Ivica Dacic says trilateral meetings of the foreign ministers of Serbia, Italy and Albania should continue "as they are good for regional stability."

The Serbian foreign minister also stressed on Wednesday that "more effort should be made to have joint projects fully implemented."

Serbia reached the final of the 2016 Men's European Water Polo Championship in Belgrade after comfortably beating Greece 13-7 (4-3, 2-0, 4-1, 2-3) on Wednesday.

Serbia, who bid for their consecutive European gold, will in the final play either Montenegro or Hungary, who are meeting tomorrow.

The border between Macedonia and Serbia in the south is crossed every day by about 2,500 migrants and refugees.

It takes them several hours or at most a day to then arrive to Serbia's northwestern border with Croatia.

The U.K. has lifted a block on the bank account of the Turkish Embassy to London, which had been imposed due to a previous court decision taken by Greek Cyprus, Turkish prime ministerial sources speaking on condition of anonymity have told state-run Anadolu Agency. 

Greek Cyprus tourist arrivals hit a 14-year high in 2015 reaching 2.65 million, on the back of a cheaper euro, official data showed on Jan. 18.

The number of tourists arriving on the eastern Mediterranean holiday spot last year spiked 8.9 percent, from 2.44 million arrivals in 2014.

This was down to a surge in British visitors attracted by the cheaper euro.

National and local budgets, EU funding, and private investment worth BGN 23.5 M is to be put aside for flood prevention in Bulgaria's Black Sea region, the Environment Ministry has announced.

The money sill be sought for the period of 2016-2021.

Romania will be assessed more positively than Bulgaria in a EU Commission report on justice and internal affairs, Bulgarian Deputy PM Ekaterina Zaharieva has said.

Britain's Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will visit Serbia in March, during a tour of the Western Balkans, his website said.

As stated, these will be official visits to "Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia" and "the first visit of the duchess of Cornwall to these countries."