Bulgaria's interior minister has announced that security has been tightened along the southern border of the country. Meanwhile, the Bosnian government says that if European borders remain 'hermetically closed' to migrants, Bosnia will also close its eastern and southern borders.
Italian police on Monday arrested a suspected migrant smuggler in the north-eastern city of Visco near Udine after a car chase that started in Slovenia.
The Austrian government announced that it would be maintaining the border controls it has on the frontier with neighboring countries Slovenia and Hungary at least until November 2019.
Greek authorities have used tear gas to disperse migrants who gathered on the country's border with Northern Macedonia in hopes of crossing into the Balkans. In the Greek capital Athens, police clashed with migrant protesters squatting on the tracks of the city's main train station. Authorities in Turkey, too, clashed with migrants mobilizing on the border with Greece.
A report by a coalition of Croatian NGOs denounced the country's authorities continuing practice of illegal push-backs, abuse and violence against migrants at the border between Croatia and Bosnia.
French government sources say there are no longer any disputes between Rome and Paris regarding the question of migrants at the border and that the issue is "less central because landings in Italy are nearly zero."
Bosnian authorities have decided to tighten border control in the east of the country to halt migrant arrivals from Serbia and Montenegro, deploying more border police officers.
Police in Croatia found the dead body of a migrant on February 24 after being alerted by a group of six migrants from Syria and Pakistan. The group apparently got lost while searching for a bridge over the Mreznica River. Another person from the group went missing in the river.
Authorities in Bosnia said more than a thousand irregular migrants have entered the country since the start of the year. They said arrivals are expected to increase significantly in the spring.
Doctors Without Borders has denounced that migrants between France and Spain are trapped in a ''relentless cycle of rejection'' by French authorities.
Germany's federal police reportedly caught thousands of migrants trying to enter the country illegally on buses or trains in 2018. Most of the migrants entered the country from neighboring Austria.
Citing a confidential EU report, German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" has reported that the total number of migrants arriving in the bloc via Turkey rose to 51,000 in 2018, despite a deal to stem such migration flows.