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Frontex vessel patrols off Lesvos coast

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Members of the Frontex, European Border Protection Agency, from Portugal patrol the coast off the northeastern Greek island of Lesvos, Thursday. About 5,000 migrants reaching Europe each day over the so-called Balkan migrant route. The refugee crisis is stoking tensions among the countries on the so-called Balkan migrant corridor — Greece, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. [AP]

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