KCSM Focus On Europe February 14, 2016
Camp, with little food or protection from the cold. Even worse, you could be held hostage by traffickers and beaten until you pay them for passage. Every day, stories like this emerge from migrants trying to cross north through macedonia, a key country on the main route into the eu. Critics fear that plans to strengthen continental borders could make a humanitarian disaster even worse. The route seems even longer if your legs are short. Braving freezing temperatures, these refugees have reached macedonia, the first stage of the western balkan route. Theyre driven on by the fear that borders al...