Borders

CAUTION Macedonian army on standby as migrants protest

Dozens of economic migrants climbed a wire fence on Tuesday on the Greece-Macedonian border asking to be allowed to enter Macedonia, RTS is reporting.

Also today, Macedonian special forces managed to round up a sizeable group that had managed to circumvent the fence and enter the country.

Hungary is ready to erect another barrier on its borders to deter a flow of migrants, this time on the border with Romania, a senior official has said.

"We are ready and capable of setting up yet another border fence within a short period of time," Janos Lazar, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said at a news conference on Thursday, according to portfolio.hu

The Economist writes that “Europe will soon have more physical barriers on its national borders than it did during the Cold War.

Bulgaria and Hungary are considering options to use Israeli border equipment to respond to migratory pressure from the Middle East and North Africa, Reuters has said.

Hungary on Aug. 30 lashed out at French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius over his criticism of the country's new anti-migrant border barrier, accusing him of "shocking and groundless" judgements.

Dozens of air travelers are refusing to show their boarding passes at airport shops in the UK after figuring out why they are being asked to show them. UK’s daily Independent revealed on Saturday that the information is used by stores to avoid paying VAT without passing on the discount to customers.