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.
The majority of migrants and asylum seekers in Serbia are Afghan nationals. They hope to continue their journeys to western Europe, but many fail in the attempt.
Denmark has announced plans to step up controls on its border with Sweden to counter cross-border crime. Several Swedish nationals are suspected of carrying out serious attacks in the Danish capital in recent months.
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.
Slovenia has reported 11,291 irregular border crossings since the start of this year, according to the interior minister.
Germany's Federal Police reports a slight increase in irregular immigration by airplane. The majority of irregular migrants to Germany coming by air use the Schengen zone as a loophole.
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.
Slovenia and Austria are discussing a proposal by the government in Ljubljana to create a joint border patrol along the border the two countries share. Vienna is evaluating the possibility.
Authorities in the border region say the number of asylum seekers has fallen and emergency situations in migrant camps have been resolved. The region's security assessor wants the new federal government "work towards impenetrability of the border area, including... as a last solution, the suspension of Schengen."
An Italian police car and a vehicle carrying 10 undocumented migrants and an alleged smuggler were involved in a high-speed car chase in the Trieste area.
More than 150 migrants crossed the border fence separating the Spanish overseas enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Friday. It was the biggest attempt to cross the heavily guarded barrier in a year.