Around 1500 migrants were rounded up in northwestern Bosnia and moved to a camp in the country on Wednesday. The town of Bihac cannot provide adequate shelter for these people in the winter weather, authorities said.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has announced plans to increase random searches at all German borders. The goal is to discourage migrants from moving between EU member states.
Germany has extended checks along its border with Austria by another six months. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer had hinted at introducing an extension in recent weeks.
The Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration confirmed that it has numerous reports of Croatian border police resorting to violence against migrants who enter the country illegally. In one case, an underage Afghan migrant even reported being "tortured by the police" with electric shocks. Croatian authorities meanwhile reject the charges.
The issue of migrants was at the center of a meeting between the presidents of Croatia, Slovenia and Austria. Croatia said that it has been successfully protecting EU borders, but did not address reports of police abuse of migrants.
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.