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Croatia has closed seven of its eight border crossing points at the Serbian border.
The largest border crossing point, Bajakovo-Batrovci, is still open.
The temporary closure of the border crossing points is aimed at reducing the influx of refugees arriving in the country from Serbian territory, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio.
According to official statistics of the local authorities, 11 000 refugees entered Croatia in less than a day. The Interior Ministry of the country says the number of migrants having entered since Wednesday has reached 13 000 as of 8:00 CEST.
Croatia is experiencing difficulties related to the oversight, accommodation and transportation of these people to transit centers or borders of nearby countries.
Meanwhile, Serbian Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin underscored that the country would protect its economic and other interests and threatened to take steps to initiate a lawsuit at an international court due to the closure of the border.
Earlier Slovenia stopped the movement of trains along the main railway line from Croatia after police stopped a train carrying around 150 refugees.
Slovenian police said that the refugees stopped at Dobova train station would be returned to Croatia as soon as possible.
Meanwhile the Slovakian Parliament overwhelmingly rejected the mandatory quota system for the distribution of migrants in EU countries proposed by the European Commission.
Tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis the world has ever seen, according to a new report.
An opinion piece published by Novinite received on Monday one of the special awards in a contest organized by the UNCHR, the Bulgarian Red Cross, and the State Agency for Refugees.
Bulgaria has spent more than BGN 100 M on constructing the fence along the border with Turkey, which has not been fully completed yet.
Large-scale police operation against illegal migration is taking place in downtown Sofia and several other places across Bulgaria on Friday morning.
During their meeting held in Thessaloniki on Thursday and Friday, the interior and foreign ministers of Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia and Albania agreed that the countries from southeastern Europe will seek common decisions for tackling the migrant crisis.
The refugee crisis in Europe, terrorist threats and the fight against organized crime have been on the agenda of a meeting of Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov and Turkey’s Chief Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Court Mehmet Akarca in Sofia.
Turkish authorities have launched a full-scale investigation after a shooting outside a building hosting the Israeli consulate in Istanbul left two attackers dead, one wounded, and several police officers injured
Fares for the Bucharest metro system are set to increase by 40 percent starting May 1, according to a draft regulation published by Romania’s Ministry of Transport and reported by Agerpres.
The United States is expanding shipments of liquefied natural gas to Southeast Europe and Ukraine via Greece, according to remarks by the US Ambassador to Athens, Kimberly Guilfoyle
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office has formally requested that the immunity of 11 Greek members of parliament be lifted as part of an ongoing investigation into alleged misuse of EU agricultural subsidies
Greece has raised its minimum monthly wage to 920 euros as of today, marking an increase from the previous level of 882 euros, according to official information
Former Foreign Minister of North Macedonia, Bujar Osmani, has said that the current political trajectory in Skopje is the result of a broader balance of external and internal factors, including what he described as influence from anti-European forces and
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