BERLIN (AP) — The latest in the odyssey of hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing Europe in search of a new life. All times local.
10:45 a.m.
Germany is considering sending police officers to Slovenia following Sunday’s decision by a summit of European leaders to dispatch 400 border guards to the small Alpine nation as it struggles to cope with the influx of migrants.
The Interior Ministry said Tuesday that Germany’s federal police force, whose responsibilities include guarding borders, is examining possible participation in the deployment.
It didn’t say how many officers might be deployed but noted that federal police are already busy with border checks at home and pointed to an existing pledge to provide 50 extra officers to help the EU border agency, Frontex, in Greece.
The federal police help provide security for German embassies abroad and also have long participated in international missions in countries including Kosovo and Afghanistan.
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9:05 a.m.
Bavaria’s governor is pressing Chancellor Angela Merkel to complain to her Austrian counterpart about an uncoordinated flow of migrants toward Germany’s border.
Governor Horst Seehofer, who has been the most prominent domestic critic of Merkel’s decision last month to allow in migrants who had piled up in Hungary, was quoted Tuesday as telling the daily Passauer Neue Presse: “This behavior by Austria is burdening neighborly relations. We can and must not treat each other this way.”
Seehofer said it’s up to Merkel, who made last month’s decision along with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, to speak to the Austrians.
Most migrants who have arrived in Austria from Hungary and more recently Slovenia have simply continued to Germany. All of Germany’s border with Austria is in Bavaria.
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