EU Migration Chief Pleads for Open Borders

The European Union migration commissioner is pleading with Balkan countries to open their borders to more than 13,000 refugees trapped for weeks on the Greece-Macedonia border, saying asylum-seekers fleeing violence in the Middle East deserve respect. “I would like today from here, from Idomeni, to send a message all around Europe that it is exactly the moment for everybody to show solidarity and responsibility, the two basic principles upon which the European project is built,” Dimitris...

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