ZAGREB, June 19, 2018 - Despite a daylong effort to enter Croatia through the Maljevac border crossing from Velika Kladuša in Bosnia and Herzegovina on foot without valid documents, some 200 migrants remained on the Bosnian side of the border where they staged a peaceful protest. The border was closed until 2010 hrs on Monday when migrants started heading back to Velika Kladuša.
The group has been stopped at the very border.
ZAGREB, June 16, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz held talks on Saturday on the protection of the European Union's external borders, and on that occasion Plenković called for a comprehensible approach to the issue of migrations that will tackle the problem at its source and that will help Greece, Italy, Malta that are carrying a huge burden of the migrant crisis, the Croatian government stated in a press release.
ZAGREB, June 14, 2018 - Croatian Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović said in Bucharest on Thursday that border protection was a priority for the EU but that additional efforts were needed to help strengthen the police forces of Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which are intersected by the newest migration route.
June 14, 2018 — Croatia's former Interior Minister Rank Ostojic claims there's no doubt the country is in throes of another migrant crisis, already becoming a "hotspot."
ZAGREB, June 13, 2018 - The director of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Office for Foreigners, Slobodan Ujić, said in Sarajevo on Tuesday that the country's authorities would close the border with Serbia and Montenegro to migrants if Croatia and other European Union member states did so.
ZAGREB, June 12, 2018 - Central European Initiative (CEI) foreign ministers discussed European Union enlargement and the migration issue in Split on Monday.
ZAGREB, June 11, 2018 - Interior Minister Davor Božinović said on Monday that Croatia would not allow illegal migration and that it would not tolerate smugglers making money on the misfortune of others.
ZAGREB, June 8, 2018 - Law enforcement authorities from southeast European countries, who convened for a conference on migration and asylum seeking matters in Sarajevo on Thursday, concluded that the migrant crisis had to be kept under full control and agreed on a set of operational measures aimed at thwarting illegal migrant routes through the region.
ZAGREB, June 7, 2018 - The cooperation between Slovenia and Croatia, as a potential Schengen Area member, in controlling illegal migration is good but the barbed wire along the border is staying, Slovenian Interior Minister Vesna Gjerkes Žnidar said, adding that Slovenia is controlling the migration situation on the Schengen border.