Austria and Slovakia announced
Monday that they will follow Germany's lead and institute
temporary border checks at their border crossings, in response
to the influx of immigrants into both countries, said Austria's
Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner and Slovakia's Interior
Minister Robert Kalinak.
Germany closed its borders starting Sunday for 12 hours in
order to reinstate border controls, following a weekend that saw
19,100 immigrants enter Munich through Austria from Syria.
Meanwhile, the Republic of Macedonia - a landlocked nation
bordered by Kosovo, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Albania -
registered 6,000 refugees who crossed the Greek border into the
country in a span of just 24 hours and heading for northern
Europe, government sources said.
The Serbian Red Cross said it expects the immigrant influx
to continue to increase, and predicts that at least 20,000
immigrants will reach Serbia, a country which has already been
crossed by 130,000 immigrants since the beginning of 2015.
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