A migrant family walks towards a registration camp after entering Macedonia from Greece, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
2:20 p.m.
The European Union's head office wants to swiftly push through a proposal to earmark 700 million euros ($760 million) in humanitarian aid to deal with the refugee crisis.
EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Christos Stylianides says Wednesday that 300 million euros ($325 million) would be earmarked for this year and be used "where it is most needed," alluding to Greece and the nations along the Balkan trail that refugees use to move into the heartland of the 28-nation bloc The overall total would cover three years.
Stylianides says the funds would not be diverted from aid programs aimed at non-EU nations.
His proposal will still need to be approved by the European parliament and the member states. EU leaders meet Monday for a summit focusing on the migration issue.
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1:40 p.m.
Macedonia has intermittently opened its border with Greece to a tiny trickle of Syrian and Iraqi refugees, leaving about 10,000 more people camped on the Greek side, with more arriving daily.
The border bottleneck has left at least 25,000 people stranded in Greece, the first European country that migrants reach in smuggling boats from Turkey. As the prosperous but divided continent flails in search of a solution to the migration crisis, individual countries led by Austria have imposed refugee caps that have caused a domino effect down the Balkan migrant corridor, which was traversed by a million people over the past year.
Greek police say Macedonian police opened the Idomeni crossing at midnight Tuesday and at 7 a.m. Wednesday, each time for two hours. They admitted a total of 170 people from Syria and Iraq - the only nationalities allowed to continue north.
Macedonia says it will only allow in as many refugees as Serbia, its northern neighbor, accepts each day.
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Testorides reported from Skopje, Macedonia. Nicholas Paphitis in Athens contributed.
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A family walks towards a registration camp after entering Macedonia from Greece, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A family walk towards a registration camp after entering Macedonia from Greece, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A migrant man in a wheelchair enters Macedonia from Greece, near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A migrant mother feeds her baby after she entered Macedonia from Greece near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A migrant couple with their children enter Macedonia from Greece near the southern Macedonian town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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Refugees wait next to the fence on the Macedonian side of the border as they wait to go back to Greece near southern Macedonia's town of Gevgelija, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Macedonia is restricting the entry of refugees to match the number of those leaving the country, allowing in only refugees from Syria and Iraq, in response to bottlenecks further up along the Balkans migrant route. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
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A man sleeps on the ground as refugees and migrants wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border crossing. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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People sleep on railway tracks as they wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border crossing. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Refugees from Iraq sleep on the ground as they wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border crossing. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A Greek police officer checks registration papers as refugees crowd to cross the border from the Greek side to Macedonia at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the Idomeni border crossing in deteriorating conditions. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Refugees crowd before crossing the border from the Greek side to Macedonia at the northern Greek border station of Idomeni Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the Idomeni border crossing in deteriorating conditions. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Refugees stand near makeshift fires as they wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border crossing.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Refugees stand near a makeshift fire as they wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Greek police said up to 10,000 mostly Syrian and Iraqi refugees were stuck at the country's Idomeni border crossing. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A woman lays down in a tent as refugees and migrants wait to be allowed to cross the border to Macedonia in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni on, Tuesday, March, 1 2016. Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Bart Kowalski, a Polish member of the search and rescue team from the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS), a Malta-based organization, aimed to rescue migrants on sea, uses the binoculars to scan the sea as he stands on the deck of the rescue vessel patrolling between the eastern Greek Island of Agathonisi and Turkish shores, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Border restrictions further north in the Balkans have left thousands of refugees and other migrants stranded in Greece, unable to seal its lengthy sea border with Turkey. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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A stranded migrant asks for food as he sits behind a fence reinforced with razor wire, on the border line with Greece near the southern Macedonia's town of Gevgelija, Tuesday, March 1, 2016. Thousand of refugees and migrants wait to cross from Greece to Macedonia to continue their journey to central and northern Europe.(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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A doll lies in the mud at a refugee camp in the northern Greek border station of Idomeni on, Tuesday, March, 1 2016. Some 7,000 migrants, including many from Syria and Iraq, are crammed into a tiny camp at the Greek border village of Idomeni, and hundreds more are arriving daily. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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