ZAGREB, September 6, 2018 - Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović visited the Cetingrad Border Police Station in the night between Wednesday and Thursday and after a midnight tour of the border area with Bosnia and Herzegovina, the president said in the village of Buhača she had received assurances that the Croatian police were professional and well equipped.

ZAGREB, September 5, 2018 - Since the start of 2018, around 2,500 refugees and migrants who tried to reach Western Europe via Croatia have been turned back, including 1,500 who have been denied asylum, while 700 have reported violence and theft, the UNHCR says in a report entitled "Desperate Journeys".

ZAGREB, September 1, 2018 - Croatia has an important role in the protection of the European Union's longest external border and in prevention of a new migrant crisis, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in an interview which Die Welt released on Saturday.

ZAGREB, August 30, 2018 - Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović has said that the increase in the number of migrants on Croatia's borders is not worrying because Croatia has one of the most capable border police forces in Europe which knows how to handle crisis situations.

ZAGREB, August 21, 2018 - Bosnia and Herzegovina Security Minister Dragan Mektić reiterated on Tuesday that most of some 11,000 illegal migrants who had entered the country since the start of the year had already left the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and continued their journey towards Croatia and other EU countries.

ZAGREB, August 20, 2018 - Interior Minister Davor Božinović denied on Monday allegations coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina that there are about eight thousand migrants in Croatia and responded that the number of migrants caught trespassing the entire border, including the border with Serbia, has amounted to 3,200 so far this year.

ZAGREB, August 18, 2018 - Two Spanish nationals were taken into police custody in Istria after they were intercepted by the local police while trying to transport 13 migrants through Croatia to Slovenia in the night between Thursday and Friday.

ZAGREB, August 17, 2018 - A temporary accommodation centre for irregular migrants will be located in Velika Kladuša, in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) close to the border with Croatia, despite opposition from local authorities, BiH authorities decided on Thursday.

ZAGREB, August 16, 2018 - A Serbian national, who was driving a van with 24 irregular migrants, was intercepted by the local police in the Croatian village of Gornji Vaganac and while he was running away, he fell into the canyon of the Korana river and sustained serious injuries, the Lika-Senj County police said on Thursday.

ZAGREB, August 15, 2018 - Interior Minister Davor Božinović has said that Croatia cannot and will not tolerate unlawful acts of trespassing on its territory, and warned that irregular migrations are actually in the interest of criminal gangs, as evidenced by the fact that proceeds from the smuggling of human beings have reached the revenues from drug trafficking.