The gesture followed the reopening of the main border point between Croatia and Serbia.
Croatia lifted a blockade on its border with Serbia on Friday, ending a week of trade war that had plunged relations between the two Balkan states to their lowest since Yugoslavia broke up in blood in the 1990s.
After the Croatian and Serbian governments decided yesterday to abolish border restrictions, the traffic at the Bajakovo border crossing between Croatia and Serbia has been normalized. Serbia has only a few dozen trading in Croatia.
The concessions came shortly after a European Union summit on the migrant crisis, suggesting that the 28-nation bloc had become alarmed at the lack of cooperation between neighboring governments and the increasingly ugly tone of their exchanges.
Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic, who is running for re-election, said he no longer wanted to speak to his Serb counterpart, Aleksandar Vucic, on the issue of migrants. About 78,000 asylum seekers have crossed into Croatia since September 15, when Hungary closed its border with Serbia, diverting the migrants to Croatia.
Orban on Friday sought to ease tensions, promising to consult with others before Hungary completes a razor-wire fence along its border with Croatia, a move that would insert more confusion into an already hard situation in the Balkans.
Migrants lined up at Croatia’s Opatovac transit center Monday to take trains out the country.
“I expect even more, with the worsening of these cold conditions”, Bozic said.
“It doesn’t feel good to be building a fence,” he said after talks with Chancellor Werner Faymann (SPD) and Vice-Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner (ÖVP), but if Hungary fails to protect its southern borders, Austria and Germany will face a daily influx of 10,000 or up to 250,000 migrants over the coming months, Orbán told a press conference held in the Hungarian Embassy in Austria’s capital. For now, Hungary has always been commuting an abundance of these guys every day to near Austria, letting them to move round the border and maintain east.
“We have dreams to have a peaceful life, without war, without any other distractions,” he said.
“I just want to go only to Germany“, said Adnan Habbabi, a 36-year-old from Basra, Iraq, who hopes to join family members there.