A border police ship (L) draws a migrants transporting vessel to Midia Port at Black Sea coast next to Navodari city on September 13, 2017.
EU member Romania is not part of the bloc's passport-free Schengen zone and until now has largely avoided the kind of influx of refugees and migrants seen elsewhere on the continent over the last few years. Bucharest fears that the Black Sea could become an alternative route for migrants seeking a new life in Europe as the dangerous journey across the Mediterranean becomes increasingly difficult. / AFP PHOTO / Daniel MIHAILESCU AND DANIEL MIHAILESCU
