Slovenia is building a new fence of several kilometers on its common border with Croatia to stop illegal migration, Interior Minister Ales Hojs announced on Tuesday. The decision will be finalized soon, and the works will start within two or three weeks.
According to his statement, the intelligence data do not indicate that a huge wave of migration similar to the one in 2015 would start after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan. According to him, this is because the interior ministers of the European Union recently decided to help only the most vulnerable groups and not to open Europe's doors wide.
In Slovenia, in the first eight months of the year, the authorities arrested 5,844 border violators, which represents a 43 percent decrease compared to the same period last year. Most of them came from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Slovenia began building a border fence during the 2015 refugee crisis, when about half a million illegal immigrants crossed the country in six months. The total length of the current border fence is 219 kilometers and covers almost a third of the Slovenian-Croatian border.
Source: MTI
