Overwhelmed Italy threatens to shut its border and forcing a crisis meeting of European Union interior ministers to impose that long-promised sharing of the burden on refugees and migrants who continue to aim for its shores. Two years after the deal with Turkey to close the Balkan route, what’s the right response to another summer of deadly tragedy?
The video item below is a piece of English language content from France 24. France 24 is a French state-owned international news television network based in Paris.
The Balkans , also known as the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe. The region takes its name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch throughout the whole of Bulgaria from the Serbian–Bulgarian border to the Black Sea coast. The Balkan Peninsula is bordered by the Adriatic Sea in the northwest, the Ionian Sea in the southwest, the Aegean Sea in the south, the Turkish Straits in the east, and the Black Sea in the northeast. The term has acquired a stigmatized and pejorative meaning related to the process of Balkanization, and hence the preferred alternative term used for the region is Southeast Europe.