Macedonia: EU pledges money The EU last week gave Macedonia €100,000 to help it deal with hundreds of migrants who arrive in the country every day, like these pictured on the border with Greece. Few want to stay in one of Europe’s poorest countries, where they would have little chance of safe haven – in 2014, only 10 asylum seekers won refugee status there. Instead migrants us it as a staging post to richer countries farther west, cramming on to ageing trains heading through Serbia. There is little accommodation or medical care provided, so most live in the open, given basics by the Red Cross.

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