Italian authorities arrested the four trafficking suspects in three operations at the border with Slovenia last week. The suspects were reportedly transporting irregular migrants into Italy in vans and cars. Police charged them with facilitating illegal immigration.
There has been an increase in migrant arrivals in Italy by land through the Balkan Route, according to Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese. She announced that controls in the border region of Friuli Venezia Giulia would be increased to combat clandestine migration.
Operations have begun to close the migrant hosting center of Bira in Bihac, in north-western Bosnia, near the border with Croatia.
A tragic shipwreck in the Mediterranean, a lifeless boy on a beach, the fickleness of politicians, borders opening and shutting -- these are some of the enduring images of the summer and fall 2015 in Europe in the context of migration. We look at six pivotal moments that have defined the so-called migrant crisis and have been engraved in our collective memory.
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.
Serbia is reportedly constructing a barbed-wire fence at its border with North Macedonia. Authorities in Belgrade have not yet commented on the issue.
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.
In yet another discovery of migrant smuggling in North Macedonia, nearly 150 people were found squeezed into two separate trucks. That's according to police, which earlier said they detained a total of 567 migrants trying to transit North Macedonia without papers in July alone.
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.
A documentary film by Italian director Mauro Caputo entitled 'No Borders. Flusso di Coscienza' tells the story of the long journey taken by migrants along the Balkan route. The film is currently in post-production.
Germany will support a new European effort to stop migrants arriving in Europe. The joint platform will focus mainly on migrants trying to enter via Turkey and Greece.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants and refugees passed through Idomeni in Greece in 2015. Then, a border wall was put up and the informal camp was forcibly evacuated. But now, the small village could become a hotspot again, with hundreds of migrants arriving each day in the hope of travelling to western Europe.