Serbia’s visa-free regime with Iran turns migrants into “tourists.”

ZAGREB, March 29, 2018 - The anti-corruption agency USKOK has indicted two Pakistani nationals on the suspicion that they transferred 42 migrants from Serbia to Croatia and 33 migrants from Croatia to Slovenia, earning around 24,000 euro in the process.

ZAGREB, March 28, 2018 - A Romanian driving a truck with 16 illegal migrants from Pakistan, India, Afghanistan and Iraq was caught at the Bajakovo border crossing in the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, the local police reported on Wednesday.

“Your head will be blown just like you were in Syria,” the attackers threatened.

ZAGREB, March 13, 2018 - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has recommended to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child to call on Croatia to investigate alleged abuses against child migrants and asylum seekers and provide meaningful access to asylum and fair procedures for those on its territory and at its borders, the human rights organisation said in a statement on Monday.

ZAGREB, March 12, 2018 - Croatia's Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović met with his Macedonian counterpart Oliver Spasovski in Zagreb on Monday to discuss cooperation between the two countries and developments along the Western Balkans migration route.

ZAGREB, March 11, 2018 - Knowledge of Croatian and cultural adjustment are prerequisites for the successful integration of migrants into the Croatian labour market, a round table was told in Zagreb. The panel discussed challenges of the economic integration of third-country nationals under international protection.

Last summer, they smuggled 54 groups of migrants from Bosnia and Herzegovina through Croatia to Slovenia.

ZAGREB, March 1, 2018 - The Interior Ministry (MUP) on Wednesday denied allegations by the non-governmental organisations Are You Syrious, the Centre for Peace Studies and No Name Kitchen, of not allowing refugees access to international protection and emphasised that the Croatian police were protecting the state border, which is at the same time the external border of the European Union, applying national and European rules.

ZAGREB, February 28, 2018 - The Are You Syrious (AYS) and Centre for Peace Studies (CMS) non-governmental organisations on Wednesday released their fourth report on refugees and warned that Croatia has continued with its practice of expulsion, unlawful behaviour and sporadic violence against refugees who have tried to seek international protection in Croatia.