Migration crisis

Romania’s President, Klaus Iohannis, alongside heads of state and government, is today attending in Brussels a mini-summit convened by the European Commission and devoted to the migration crisis in the Western Balkans.

According to France Presse news agency, leaders from 10 EU member states as well as from Albania, Macedonia and Serbia, which are not members of the community block, have been invited to attend the summit.

The agenda of the talks will cover, among others, the issue of relocating 160,000 refugees, agreed upon a couple of months ago, but which has been left pending, as well as the EU member states’ financial contribution to solve the migration crisis.

Radio Romania’s correspondent in Brussels quotes European sources as saying the draft agreement provides, among others, for the participating countries to no longer allow migrants to cross into a neighbouring country, in the lack of a previous agreement in that respect.