appoint contact officers who can submit information on migrant numbers to other countries and authorities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n“This is one of the greatest litmus tests that Europe has ever faced,” said German Chancellor Angela Merkel.<\/p>\n
Smaller countries along the Balkan route say their resources are stretched by the number of people arriving.<\/p>\n
Bottlenecks have also been exacerbated in part by Hungary closing its borders with Serbia and Croatia, forcing migrants to seek alternative routes north.<\/p>\n
Their journeys have been aided by governments who have helped them move to camps or on to the next border.<\/p>\n
Before the talks, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic dismissed requests to stop moving migrants on.<\/p>\n
“That is impossible, whoever wrote this does not understand how things work and must have just woken up from a months-long sleep,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Waving them through has to be stopped and that is what is going to happen,” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said after the summit.<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n <\/p>\n
Mr Milanovic and Slovenian President Borut Pahor had said Sunday’s talks would be a success only if they agreed to stricter restrictions on migrants travelling from Turkey to Greece.<\/p>\n
But no firm new measures on that front were agreed.<\/p>\n
Analysis: Lucy Williamson, BBC News, Brussels<\/h2>\n There was grumbling, there was pleading, and there were several sharp retorts.<\/p>\n
It was sometimes hard to remember that all the leaders who turned up here today professed to want the same thing: an end to the chaos that increasingly marks the migration route through the Western Balkans.<\/p>\n
They don’t agree on the way to do it.<\/p>\n
Even before the meeting began, Croatia’s Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic labelled the plan “unrealistic”; drafted by someone “who had just woken up from a months-long sleep”. The solution, he said, lay in Turkey and Greece.<\/p>\n
It’s a sentiment echoed by many of the leaders here today – that without action from Turkey in stemming the number of people crossing its border into Greece, anything else is just tinkering around the edges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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