 | Much EU politician hand-wringing in this article. Not for the faint of heart... |
Migrants crossing the Balkans will begin freezing to death as winter approaches, the head of European Union has said, as leaders warned the continent was "falling apart" trying to deal with the biggest humanitarian crisis since the Second World War.
| Unfortunate. People should not be allowed to freeze to death. Best thing to do is to turn the show around and move the refugees to somewhere warm. Latakia would work, as would Tobruk. And there's always Mauritania... |
As leaders of eastern European countries turned on each other at a foul-tempered emergency summit in Brussels, they said the Schengen visa-free zone and even the European Union itself could be pulled apart as states threw up borders to halt the influx.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said a solution was urgently needed or thousands of refugee families facing winter temperature on the hillsides and freezing river-banks of Eastern Europe, would die.
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