Migrants come under tear gas fire as they try to breach Macedonia border

Macedonian police have fired tear gas after migrants and refugees broke through a gate on the country’s border with Greece. Thousands of people have been stuck on the Greek side of the border as Macedonian officials allow only a trickle of people through each day. Frustration boiled over on Monday, with a few hundred people breaking through the gate, chanting “open the border” and throwing stones at Macedonian police, according to reports. Police also used stun grenades to calm the crowd, Associated Press said, although there were no injuries or arrests reported.

Do you seriously believe that all the euro states that last year fought all the way to keep Greece in the eurozone - and we were the strictest - can one year later allow Greece to, in a way, plunge into chaos?

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel

About 6,500 people have been stuck at or near the border crossing at Idomeni in Greece, with another 500 at a makeshift camp on a small concrete strip around 13 miles away. Macedonia has previously said it will only allow in as many people as neighbouring Serbia agrees to accept but this has left thousands of migrants stuck in Greece. Some have been there for up to eight days with little food or shelter. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel blamed Austria for the current build-up, after the country’s announcement that it would take no more than 80 asylum claims per day and cap the numbers of those seeking to cross the country.

Apparently for some, the European solution (to the crisis) is for all (migrants) to mass in Austria.

Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner

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