The European Parliament is debating the resurgence of refugee flows at the EU’s external borders. Nearly 6,000 refugees have gathered at the border between Bosnia and Croatia.
The European Parliament debated on Wednesday about the thousands of refugees currently gathered at the EU’s external border between Bosnia and Croatia. The refugees’ camp in Bosnia has been deteriorating since a fire broke out on Dec. 23 last year.
According to our RFI correspondent Joana Hostein from Brussels on Wednesday (January 20, 2021), nearly 5,800 refugees are currently trapped in northwestern Bosnia near the Croatian border. The situation has been extremely difficult since a fire broke out in their camp in the village of Lipa.
Sophia In’t Veld, a Dutch MEP in the European Parliament, blames the fault on Europe and the fault on Bosnia. She described Lipa as hell. A few weeks ago, a three-year-old girl was found in the mud, bleeding, because she had been violently injured. She noted that there is a problem of illegal deportations there, with some people being deported from Croatia to Bosnia.
European Left Calls for Recasting EU Migration Policy
The EU intends to build a 1,000-kilometer wall with barbed wire ˎ railings ˎ surveillance equipment ˎ police and border patrols. The locations are in Croatia ˎ in Greece ˎ on the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea ˎ in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in the Maghreb region of North Africa, as well as in Hungary and Calais in France. Damien Carême, a MEP from the French Green Party, is outraged by this. The MEPs noted that 20,000 people have been killed while crossing the Mediterranean since 2014.
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