The EU on Monday pledged to help set up 100,000 places in reception centers along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to end rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal with the crisis.<br />European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker made the announcement after crisis talks with the heads of 10 EU nations, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, plus the leaders of non-EU Albania, Serbia and Macedonia.<br />“Managing migration flows together is the only way to restore order, to slow down the uncontrolled flow of people.<br />The uncontrolled flow of people must be stopped,” Juncker told a press conference in Brussels.<br />More than 670,000 people have reached European soil this year — many of them fleeing violence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan — in the continent’s worst migration crisis since World War II.<br />“This is one of the greatest litmus tests Europe has ever faced,” Merkel told the press conference with Juncker.
