REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LJUBLJANA --  The Slovenian Interior Ministry announced on Wednesday plans to set up a large new refugee accommodation centre and shut down two existing facilities by the end of February.

The facility is designed to accommodate 2,000-3,000 refugees with a large piece of land and access to the national motorway or the railway, the ministry described in its announcement.

The centre will be needed after the ministry decided earlier that the facility in Celje in central Slovenia will be shut down in mid-January and the centre in Gornja Radgona on the border with Italy by the end of February, the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) reported.

There are currently over a dozen refugee centres around the country, but only Dobova, the entry point for refugees from Croatia, and the Sentilj tent city on the border with Austria are regularly used.

All of the centres were in use in the initial stages of the refugee surge, but now refugees come by train to Dobova and are then transported by train either to Sentilj or towards Jesenice and on to Austria.

Some 15,400 refugees and migrants entered Slovenia so far this new year, while the total since mid-October is slowly approaching 400,000.

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