ZAGREB, September 12, 2018 - A Frontex-run training programme called "Land and Border Surveillance Officer Training" is currently underway in Valbandon, near Pula, for 45 police officers from EU countries and is being conducted together with the Croatian Police Academy, which is a partner to the Frontex Academy.

ZAGREB, September 12, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković told the visiting Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in Zagreb on Tuesday that Croatia was making great efforts in combating illegal migration and protecting the European Union's external border, reiterating that Croatia would like to join the Schengen area next year.

The first European border police officers are expected to arrive in 2020.

ZAGREB, September 11, 2018 - Border police in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are cooperating well in preventing illegal migration and the Bosnian side is prepared to engage all its capacities to control those occurrences, it was said on Monday following a meeting of Bosnia's border police director Zoran Galić and Croatia's Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Ivan Del Vechio.

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.