Various associations have launched an appeal calling for an immediate protection intervention for 36 people who are blocked in very difficult conditions at the border between Tunisia and Libya.
Eighteen migrants were injured while trying to reach the European Union across Bosnia's border with Croatia, local media and police said on Wednesday. The case has been put under the jurisdiction of the state prosecutor.
New reports place the EU border agency Frontex at scenes of brutality against migrants. The border guards of Greece, Bulgaria and Hungary have been found to be especially brutal.
Slovenian authorities say that they detained 249 migrants between Friday and Monday along the western part of the border with Croatia. Most were from Afghanistan, Pakistan, or Bangladesh.
Dragan Lukac, Interior Minister of the Serbian-majority part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (also known as Republika Srpska) said that he would not allow for migrant reception centers to be set up in his territory after growing calls to redistribute migrants within Bosnia.
The prime minister of Slovenia has announced that he will increase the presence of security forces at the border with Croatia, to implement more controls amidst the influx of migrants on the Balkan route.
Controversy has erupted in Bosnia over a government proposal to deploy military units to the borders with Serbia and Montenegro, in order to physically block migrants from illegally crossing and entering the country.
A joint border patrol mission between Italy and Slovenia started Monday. The aim is to stem the flow of migrants reaching the north-eastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia from the eastern border.
Within eyeshot of the Bosnian-Croatian border, thousands of refugees are camping in squalor on a former garbage site. Their supplies are scarce. Photographer Dirk Planert was among them.
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said he is not ruling out the possibility of erecting a border barrier in northeastern Italy.
Fresh accusations of migrant abuse have been made against Croatian police. A mountaineer has sent an open letter to the media describing abuses by the authorities against foreigners, to which he was an eyewitness during a weekend expedition on Mount Risnjak.
The illegal immigration situation in the EU has "significantly improved," with 30,000 irregular crossings of EU borders since the start of 2019, Fabrice Leggeri, the director of the European Union border agency Frontex, said in a recent interview.