Presentation of Slovenian experience with refugees on roads Bine Pengal Section for Road Maintenance and Management binepengalzagsi Brussels 06 02 201 7 National road agencies issues and experiences ID: 794194
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CEDR Transmigration Workshop
Presentation of Slovenian experience with refugees on roads
Bine PengalSection for Road Maintenance and Managementbine.pengal@zag.si
Brussels, 06.02.2017
National road agencies‘ issues and experiences
Slide2Slovenia‘s geopolitical position in 2015
The „Balkan
migration route“Then it started…Slovenia‘s reaction
Involvement of road and railway authoritiesCEDR Transmigration workshop 6-7 Feb 2017
Slide3Slovenia‘s geopolitical position
in 2015
Ongoing war in Syria, Libya and Iraq also A
fganistanTurkey hosting nearly 2 mio
. refugees that want to go to EU
Hungary closed its borders
Next logical choice for people travelling via the Balkan route is Slovenia
No official agreement among the EU states about such large mass of refugees
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Slide4The Balkan migration route
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Slide5Then it started…
In October 2015 Hungary decided to close its borders for refugees
People started to divert towards Slovenia a large migration wave started
From October to December 2015 around 400.000 migrants crossed Slovenia‘s borders (daily migration rate up to 10.000 people)
Majority continued their journey towards Austria and Germany, some stayed in Slovenia
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Slide7Slovenia‘s reaction
Ministry of interior and Police took charge of the coordination of all activities in relation to refugees
Around 18.900 people were mobilized; members of Police, Slovenian Army, Civil protection forces, volunteers,
additional 260 unemployed persons were activatedSlovenia‘s costs for the reaction were estimated at roughly
15
mio
. €
Slovenia set up
22
migration centres
,
capable of providing refuge to a total of 8.300 people at once; additionally 135 km
of safety fences were installed at a later stage
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Slide9Involvement of road and railway authorities
Slovenian roads agency (DRSI) and Slovenian highways managing company DARS were not operationally involved
Police controlled and managed the flow of migrants on Slovenian roadsDRSI was approached for some bureaucratic procedures to establish the right of passing through some of its perimeters
DRSI allowed the use of one of its large parking spaces for trucks to be used as a temporary detention centre before transporting migrants towards the Austrian borderSlovenian railway authorities have been asked to construct a temporary railway line with
a
platform for transport
ing
migrants to the border as efficiently as possible
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Slide11Thank you for your attention!
CEDR Transmigration workshop 6-7 Feb 2017
Bine
Pengal
Slovenian National Building and
Civil Engineering Institute
Dimičeva
12
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: +386 1 2804 555
Email: bine.pengal@zag.si