EU plans to close Balkan route at summit amid migrant crisis.

EU and Turkish leaders are head locked in discussion over the ongoing migrant crisis that has jolted the Europe. According to stats, the ongoing migrants crisis due to the situation in the Middle East is the biggest since the World War II and EU has found it hard to control the flow of refugees especially from Turkey via Greece.

In a bid to get a grip in the refugee crisis, EU is mulling the option of closing the the route north through the Balkans. EU as a result will push Turkey to take back economic migrants and has pledged to give Ankara$3.3 billion in compensation.  With more than a million refugees entering EU through boat from Turkey via Greece, EU is seriously considering taking serious action against this. And to make things worse some 13,000 are stranded on Greece’s border with Macedonia.

Another boat of migrants recently showed just why this issue needs to be handled more seriously as a boat capsized off Turkey with the loss of 25 lives this Sunday. However, there are serious differences within EU amid refugee crisis with the likes of Germany and Sweden in favor of welcoming he migrants to Europe while some other countries are against it and are asking for a stern action Greece. Greece is believed to be the culprit among all this at it has failed to stop the inflow of refugees from its border. However, German chancellor Angela Merkel has stressed that EU needs to stand with Greece in this situation.

The BBC’s Chris Morris in Brussels says a draft summit communique declares that the route for migrants through the Western Balkans will close. The draft communique also pledges that the EU will stand by Greece in this difficult moment and will do its utmost to help manage the situation.

“This is a collective EU responsibility requiring fast and efficient mobilization,” it adds.

The EU said last October it would relocate 160,000 asylum seekers, mainly from Greece and Italy, but there was strong opposition among some members and fewer than 700 migrants have moved.

Macedonia has blocked entry of refugees from Syria and Iraq as it is not considered as an active conflict zones anymore. This has add to the misery of the refugees who are struck in the refugee camps near the borders and are relying on the food given to them by the volunteers.

“We have been here five days, or six – who remembers the days anymore?” asked Narjes al Shalaby, 27, from the Syrian capital Damascus, in conversation with AP.

She is travelling with her mother and two daughters, Maria, five, and Bara’a, 10. Her husband and third daughter are already in Germany.

“All we do here is sleep, wake up, sleep,” she said. “We get hungry, we wait in the queue for two hours for a sandwich, we come back, we sleep some more.”

Macedonia is blocking migrants to come to Europe through its border in a time where it aspires to be an active EU member. It is now using razor wires and watch towers to monitor the movement of refugees near its border areas.