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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer visit a border police station in Elhovo, near the Bulgarian-Turkish border, Bulgaria January 23, 2023 | Photo: Reuters/Stoyan Nenov
From file: Migrants in front of Prague main train station, Czech Republic, September 14, 2022 | Photo: CTK Photo/Milos Ruml/picture-alliance
The Swiss border is practically open for anyone to cross | Photo: Mandoga Media/picture-alliance
Some 2,000 people are reportedly living in northern France, many sleeping rough scattered around the Calais and Dunkirk area | Photo: Christopher Furlong/getty
From file: Bulgarian border policemen patrol the border fence using dogs | Photo: Vassil Donev/dpa/picture-alliance
Despite being EU member states, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia are not part of the Schengen zone | Photo: Udo Herrmann/CHROMORANGE/picture alliance
Border police check people returning from Tirol at the Germany-Austria border | Photo: Frank Hoermann/SVEN SIMON/picture allianc
Refugees often have to pay smugglers up to $3,000 to reach their final destination | Photo: Darko Vojinovic/dpa/AP/picture alliance
From file: Refugees from Ukraine have been crossing at land borders of neighboring countries, like Slovakia | Photo: Radovan Stoklasa/Reuters
From file: Migrants near the border between Serbia and Romonia | Photo: Reuters
A police officer directs the traffic, as they check vehicles at the Czech-Slovak border in Stary Hrozenkov, as part of the security measures put in place after the numbers of migrants travelling to Germany increased, Czech Republic, September 29, 2022 | Photo: REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa
Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi has accused Turkey of violently forcing asylum seekers to cross the Greek border and has said Greece will further step up security in the Evros region in response | Photo: Arafatul Islam/DW