Idea to build migrant camp in Balkans "taken off table"

Idea to build migrant camp in Balkans "taken off table"

He stressed that there had been "no progress" with this idea and that all countries, including EU members, have an international obligation to receive migrants in accordance with asylum procedures.

"There can only be an agreement on this issue with the consent of a third country, and this is only possible if everything is be done in accordance with European and international laws," Schoder said. He added that states have the right to manage their borders as they wish, but he assessed that closing the borders is not a solution.

Schoder also said that the situation in Serbia, when it comes to the migrant crisis, is stabl, and that the number of migrants in the country's reception centers has been halved, from 6,000 to 3,000.

International media in the past days reported that EU countries were looking for a suitable location in Europe, outside the EU, to build a large reception camp for migrants unwanted in the EU, with the Western Balkans mentioned in this context.