Backlog builds in Balkans

A column of around 40 buses packed with migrants queued to enter Croatia from serbia yesterday,their passage to western Europe slowed by a new diversion through Slovenia as weather conditions worsen.Many had spent the night on the buses, wrapped in warm clothes and blankets against the autumn cold. They woke to dense fog. This part of the trip has lasted 20 hours, and we have been here for almost 12 hours, said khair, a former sales manager from the Syrian capital.Damascus, ' What can we do ? We,re here and we have to wait. Hungary sealed its southern border with Croatia to migrants at midnight on Friday, forcing them west to fellow EU member Slovenia. Meanwhile Turkish prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu yesterday praised a better approach from the European Union in sharing the burden of the refugee crisis, following talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Istanbul. Unfortunately Turkey was left alone by the International community in terms of burden sharing. we are very pleased there is a better approach now. This issue of sharing going forward is very important, said Davutoglu.Some 3000 entered Slovenia on seturday, en route to Austria and Germany, the favored destination of the vast majority, many of them Syrian fleeing war.
but Slovenian authority said they planned to limit the influx to around 2500 per day in line with the country,s capacity to register and accommodate them, That threatened to create a backlog in Croatia and seberia which is recent weeks have seen upwords of 5000 crossing their borders everyday. The Greek coastguerd yesterday said five more migrant including a baby and two boys had died trying to cross the Aegean sea from neighbouring Turkey.