1,25 millió menedékkérő érkezett tavaly Európába
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A photo taken from behind a fence at the Macedonian side of the border shows men sitting under a blanket and smoking cigarettes as they wait with other migrants from Syria to cross the Greek-Macedonian border near the town of Gevgelija on February 24, 2016.
Balkan countries along the well-trodden migrant path towards northern Europe met on February 24 to explore ways to stem the flow despite growing fears that tighter controls will spark a humanitarian crisis, particularly in Greece. In the latest such move, Macedonia has closed its frontier to Afghans and introduced more stringent document checks for Syrians and Iraqis seeking to travel to northern and western Europe. The restrictions have caused a bottleneck of thousands of people at the Greek-Macedonian border. / AFP / Robert ATANASOVSKI