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No more refugee trains after nearly half million dispatched: Slovenian PM

Xinhua, March 10, 2016 Adjust font size:

Slovenia had fully reinstated Schengen rules on the border with Croatia at zero hour Wednesday and was no longer accepting organised trains carrying refugees, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar announced Wednesday.

Cerar made the remarks on Wednesday when he led his cabinet ministers touring the Podravje region in northeastern Slovenia, the main region once used to transiting refugees to Austria.

The prime minister said the decision was taken on Tuesday after Monday's EU summit agreement to close the Balkan route for "irregular migration".

He added that Europe will remain open to those asylum seekers who have grounds to be accepted. Slovenia will let in those who want to file for international protection in Slovenia and individuals granted entry on humanitarian grounds.

A total of 478,000 refugees and migrants entered Slovenia since Oct. 16 last year. Most of them arrived on trains boarded on the Serbian-Croatian border.

Police statistics show that Slovenia has not seen the arrival of any refugees in the past four days, coinciding with measures to stem the flow of refugees on the Greek-Macedonian border. Endit