Austria: Merkel calls for acceleration of refugee resettlement deal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of high pressure at the Greek-Bulgarian border if the resettlement mechanism of refugees and migrants was not accelerated, speaking to journalists on the sidelines of a migration summit in Vienna, Saturday.
"Therefore, this mechanism needs to be accelerated. If the tens thousands of refugees in Greece have the impression that they do not come legally in the European member states, even if they are entitled to, then the pressure on the Bulgarian-Greek border will of course increase again,” Merkel noted, before adding “we want to totally combat illegality and strengthen legality."
The summit on migration addressed the issue of border controls along the Balkan route, traversed by refugees attempting to reach central Europe, as well as refugee distribution within the EU.