Hold Your Guard: Migration Crisis in South-East Europe

... crisis are not yet long-term, but over time may well become so. The fiscal, social and environmental burden on host countries will be growing. On October 25, 2015 the European Commission decided to set up refugee reception centers along the Western Balkans route, equipped with everything to live through winter. Greece is expected to increase reception capacity to 50,000 places (30,000 places at its own expense and another 20,000 with external financial support); other countries along the Western Balkans route are to increase reception capacity to 50,000 places ...