⁍ Around 1,000 migrants in the northern province of Vojvodina waiting to try to cross into neighbouring countries.

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⁍ A further 1,000 or so were in Belgrade, many of them living in the open air in parks or on river banks.

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– With Europe’s migrant crisis showing no sign of abating, thousands of migrants are continuing to pour into Serbia every day. The country’s Asylum Protection Center says it has 150 migrants entering daily from the south, many of them from the Middle East and Africa, Reuters reports. The center says there are around 1,000 migrants in the northern province of Vojvodina waiting to try to cross into neighboring countries, including Romania and Hungary en route to wealthier parts of the continent. A further 1,000 or so are in Belgrade, many of them living in the open air in parks or on river banks before they also moved north towards the border. “We have 150 migrants entering the country from the south every day,” says the center’s executive director. A spokeswoman for the government’s commission for refugees says overall migrant numbers in Serbia are some 30% higher than the same time last year. She did not say why, but strict policies in Hungary to control the number of migrants entering its territory as well as patrols in Croatia mean some are stuck in Serbia’s north. Their plight is back in the headlines after a fire on the Greek island of Lesbos razed a refugee camp housing more than 12,000 people to the ground, stranding most of them. Last week the European Union launched a contentious plan to overhaul migration rules that have long divided the bloc, including an element that would de facto oblige each state to host some refugees. Eastern nations Poland and Hungary are strongly opposed to such measures. Eastern nations Poland and Hungary are strongly opposed to such measures.