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Croatia starts letting trucks enter from Serbia

22 September 2015 18:40 (UTC +04:00)

Croatia has started letting in trucks cross its border with Serbia after Serbia's prime minister gave the European Union a deadline to persuade Croatia to resume all cargo traffic that was halted after a surge of migrants over their mutual frontier.

Aleksandar Vucic said Tuesday that Croatia's closure of the main border crossing for cargo trucks early Monday is "a scandal of international proportions."

Croatian media said that only trucks loaded with foodstuffs would be allowed to cross. Serbian media said that all trucks that have been stranded on the Serbian side of the border are going through.

Landlocked Serbia has said it is losing millions of dollars a day because of the blockade.

Croatia, which has last week closed all but one border crossing with Serbia, wants to pressure Serbia to stop sending the migrants toward Croatian borders and rather channel them further north to Hungary.