Croatia claims to have stopped just over 16,000 attempts by migrants without visas to cross the border with Bosnia since the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, Bosnia says it has halted close to 9,000 illegal migrant entrances so far this year.
The documentary film "No Borders. Stream of Conscience" by Italian director Mauto Caputo tells the story of migrants on the Balkan Route. Caputo spent a year and a half filming in the Karst Plateau region, along the border between Italy and Slovenia. He recently spoke to ANSA about the experience.
Tension is rising in northwestern Bosnia where authorities have launched a crackdown on thousands of migrants. The UN migration agency has warned that the crackdown is fueling a "volatile situation."
Seven human traffickers arrested as migrant numbers increase along the Balkan Route and police step up controls.
Residents in the town of Velika Kladusa in Bosnia-Herzegovina have staged an anti-migrant protest. They accused migrants of assaults and violence against the local population.
News and incidents reported recently in Balkan nations seem to show that the Balkan migrant route is once more crowded despite the COVID-19 crisis. Countries in the region are seeing a significant resumption of refugee and migrant flows from the Middle East and Central Asia.
Will you be sent back to Italy if you had your fingerprints taken there, but then applied for asylum in another EU country? What happens if you are to be deported under Dublin but you refuse? We put these questions and more to a number of experts, including German lawyer Albert Sommerfeld.
The number of migrants seeking to enter the EU tripled in May compared to the previous month. It's a sign traffic along Europe's migration routes is picking up again after a lull brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Human rights organization Amnesty International is accusing the Croatian border police of an unprecedented degree of brutality in their treatment of migrants. The NGO referred to personal accounts of six Pakistanis and Afghans as well as statements by attending physicians.
In recent months there have been increasing reports, from humanitarian organizations and migrants themselves, about the mistreatment of migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Croatia. Now organizations like CARE International are calling on the international community to act.
Bosnian authorities on Wednesday said they arrested eight people suspected of migrant trafficking and prevented the smuggling of 45 migrants into the European Union.
As the COVID-19 outbreak continues, the security minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina suggested that migrants should be deported from the country. He alleged that refugees and migrants posed an economic burden amid the pandemic — as well as a security threat. The mood against migrants in Bosnia is beginning to turn sour.