Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic speaks during an interview with Reuters in Vienna, Austria, August 26, 2015. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
VIENNA (Reuters) - Serbia will never close its borders to migrants, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told Reuters on Wednesday, but he said EU leaders must help frame a plan on how to cope with the tens of thousands pouring into the Balkan region.
About 100,000 migrants, many of them from Syria and other conflict zones in the Middle East, have entered Serbia this year on their way north to Hungary and Europe's Schengen zone of passport-free travel. Hungary is building a 3.5-metre high fence along its 175-km (110-mile) border with Serbia seeking to keep the migrants out.
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