Белгия: "Зимата наближава" за ЕС и бежанците - Тимерманс

The Vice-President of the European Commission Frans Timmermans warned that "winter is coming," an allusion to Game of Thrones, which he said he meant both literally and metaphorically as a call to action to European states to respond to the refugee and migrant crisis, at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday. Timmermans and the Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos both made impassioned pleas for Europe to act before it is too late. Avramopoulos said that the European "neighbourhood is on fire, this concerns us all. The only pragmatic and humanitarian response is an ambitious European one," implying support for the quota system proposed by the European Commission. Earlier in the day, thousands of refugees and migrants had been crossing through Hungary from Serbia in order to reach northern countries in the European Union. However, after the Hungarian government sealed the border and introduced tough legislation to control refugees crossing, Croatia looks set to become a major route for refugees looking to reach countries like Germany and Austria.