ZAGREB, June 25, 2018 - Croatia will protect its national interests if some member states return migrants to the countries where they entered the European Union because Croatia is almost never the first country of entry, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Brussels on Sunday at a mini summit on migration.

ZAGREB, June 22, 2018 - At least 16 European Union member states, including Croatia, will attend on Sunday afternoon an informal meeting on migration and asylum convened by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

A van with migrants ended up in a ditch next to the Zagreb-Rijeka motorway.

ZAGREB, June 20, 2018 - Bosnia's police agency estimates that currently there are about 2,500 illegal migrants in the country who intend to continue on their way to some Western European country, Bosnia and Herzegovina's Security Minister Dragan Mektić said during a debate on the refugee crisis in the country's parliament.

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.

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.