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Slovenia buckles up as migrants rush to escape winter, border closures

Slovenia buckles up as migrants rush to escape winter, border closures

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-10-21 05:24 GMT
Slovenia on Tuesday called in the army to help it manage a flood of refugees seeking to reach northern Europe ahead of winter, as the small EU state became the latest trouble spot on the migrant trail.
The trip which most have made on inflatable boats from Turkey to Greece has left over 3,000 dead or missing.
More than 600,000 migrants and refugees, mainly fleeing violence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, have braved the dangerous journey to Europe so far this year.
In Greece, the crisis showed no sign of abating with a clear "spike in arrivals" that left 27,500 people packed on the Greek islands by Tuesday morning, the UN said.
However, 'this does not mean a state of emergency,' Prime Minister Miro Cerar told journalists.
Under current law, the army can only provide technical and logistical support.
Parliament will be asked to approve legislation allowing soldiers to intervene in the crisis "under very specific circumstances," the government said.
'The last 24 hours have been the toughest and most demanding since the start of the crisis,' it said, warning it was 'delusional' to expect small countries to succeed where larger ones had failed.
';The inflow of migrants over the last three days has exceeded all manageable possibilities,' the Slovenian government said.
Since Saturday when Hungary sealed off its border with Croatia, more than 19,460 migrants have arrived in Slovenia, with the nation of two million people warning it was struggling to cope.
But a vaunted European Union (EU) scheme for relocating 160,000 asylum seekers around the bloc has made no progress, an EU source said.
With at least 9,000 people landing on Europe's beaches every day, there appeared to be no end in sight to the continent's biggest migration wave since World War II.
Slovenia buckles up as migrants rush to escape winter, border closures

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