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Contents: Mediterranean migrant traffic to Italy and Greece continues, despite cold weather; Europeans wonder if Turkey will reopen the refugee floodgates

(REUTERS) – A group of migrants who had marched for two days from the Serbian capital Belgrade were stopped on Sunday at the border with Croatia, a European Union member which said would not allow illegal crossings.

LONDON (Reuters) – Croatia’s president called for the country’s new government to adopt an outward looking stance on Tuesday and said she expected Britain’s negotiations to leave the EU to be long and difficult and required a tailor-made deal. Kolinda

Contents: Migrants trapped in Serbia march toward border with Hungary; The refugee problem continues, despite EU-Turkey deal

Contents: EU threatens to impose travel restrictions on US/Canada visitors; EU migrant crisis moves to Italy as Austria begins closing border; Austria begins construction on border controls with Italy

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia’s Jewish community has confirmed that it will boycott an official Holocaust commemoration to protest government’s alleged inaction to curb the surge of neo-Nazi sentiments in the country. The Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of

ZAGREB (Reuters) – Croatia’s new centre-right government condemned on Monday the crimes of the country’s World War Two Nazi puppet regime after the Jewish and Serbian communities said they would boycott an event this month commemorating concentration camp victims. Representatives

The Slovenian parliament late Monday authorised the army to help police manage the flow of migrants crossing the Croatian border into Europe’s Schengen passport-free zone, which has been rocked by the refugee crisis. The bill sailed through, approved by 69

(AFP) – Croatia’s parliament late Friday approved a new centre-right government led by a political novice, who warned “difficult decisions” lie ahead as the EU’s newest member struggles with meagre economic growth and an influx of refugees. More than two

VIENNA (AFP) –  Austria’s interior minister signalled Friday a tougher line on migrants, saying that from next weekend it will follow Germany’s lead and turn back any new arrivals seeking to claim asylum in Scandinavia. “Right now on the Austrian-German border

Contents: Angela Merkel urges Germans to see refugees as an ‘opportunity’; UN refugee czar Guterres calls for mandatory funding for refugees; The ‘dramatic multiplication of conflicts in the world’; The Outlook for 2016

The European Union has started legal proceedings against several member states for breaching migrant rules during the summer as the continent struggled to cope with the migrant crisis. At the height of the migrant crisis in the three months between June

Contents: Migrants blocked at Macedonian border sew their mouths shut; Ukraine suspends all commercial trade with occupied Crimea; Ukraine and Russia in tit-for-tat escalating sanctions; Steel and other commodity prices continue to plummet

Contents: American politics becomes infused with anti-Muslim xenophobia; Paris attack significantly worsens Europe refugee crisis

Contents: Arms race grows between Serbia and Croatia; EU and African leaders clash amid accusations of ‘Fortress Europe’; Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark take steps to block the migrant flow

Croatia’s conservative opposition won the country’s first election since it joined the European Union in 2013, partial results from Sunday’s election showed, but its narrow victory meant lengthy coalition talks were likely to follow in the next days or weeks.

Croatians began voting in a general election today with conservatives aspiring to return to power, as the European Union (EU) nation faces a wave of migrants and slowly emerges from six years of recession. Opinion polls predict a tight race between

The Croatian election tomorrow could usher in a new centre-right government favouring much stricter border controls, possibly even leading to the continent’s southern border being closed. The country has become a major route for the hundreds of thousands of migrants

Although many Balkan countries have done little to secure their own borders, they are doing all they can to help the flow of migrants to western Europe transit through as quickly as possible. Since Hungary closed their own borders to Croatia

An estimated 600 patriots marched on the Austrian border with Slovenia yesterday to protest the lack of border controls, and demand the government start building a fence. The group, which chanted slogans coined by the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of

Contents: Eurosceptic party in Poland wins election overwhelmingly; European Union nations in crisis agree on a migration plan for refugees; Hey kids, what time is it? In Turkey, it’s Erdogan Time!

Incredible footage which purports to show Croatian police helping migrants illegally cross an unguarded border into Slovenia has been released by Slovene police, on a day when the country received more than 12,000 migrants. The remarkable film, taken with a

Contents: A cynical Turkey rejects Europe’s ‘concentration camp’ refugee proposal; As winter approaches, thousands of European refugees may be trapped in the cold

Two Syrian sisters hold up a sign on an improvised board made of pink rubber – an attempt to keep fellow refugees calm as they wait in long, slow-moving queues at the Serbia-Croatia border. “There are no buses right now. Be

BERKASOVO, Serbia – Thousands of migrants clamoured to enter European Union member Croatia from Serbia on Monday after a night spent in the cold and mud of no-man’s land, their passage west slowed by a Slovenian effort to impose limits on

Contents: Russian troops may take control of Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan; European Union agrees to terms in exchange for Turkey’s help with refugees; Hungary closes the border with Croatia; Polls show British voters more willing to leave European Union; Turkey’s president Erdogan ridicules Europe over refugee crisis

With temperatures starting to drop there is evidence of migrants rushing to Europe to beat the coming winter weather. In some parts of Europe the change is already pronounced, with the first snow falling nearly a month ago, but winter is spreading

The Croatian sun has given way to rain and the temperature has dropped, but refugees and migrants continue to stream into the country, forcing officials and charities to scramble to prepare for wintry conditions. More than 90,000 migrants, many of

The European Union has passed a deal that secures the distribution of 120,000 Middle Eastern and African migrants throughout the continent. The migrants, many stuck in interim nations before reaching what they hope to be their final destination, are now continuing those voyages as per the EU.

How easy is to be classified as a Syrian refugee in a Europe with porous borders, a gullible bureaucracy and a commitment to an open-ended asylum seeker intake? Quite easy, as it turns out. A video shot by Danny Ghosen for the

The president of Croatia had strong words for Angela Merkel on the eve of the European Union’s latest talking exercise on migration, likening the effect of German policy to a traffic accident. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, the first female president of Croatia,

A Syrian immigrant stuck in Croatia told Slovenian journalists that “extremely violent” Iraqi and Afghan men were pushing their way onto trains on their way to Western Europe, crowding out families with young children. Making his emotional plea to the camera

Contents: European countries in near-chaos take turns dumping migrants; Russian ‘refusenik’ soldiers resist deployment in Syria; Russia’s media take note of Carly Fiorina’s debate statements

BELI MANASTIR, Croatia (Reuters) – Croatia said on Saturday it had “forced” Hungary to take in thousands of migrants and would continue sending them to its northern neighbour, amid deepening discord and disarray in Europe over the biggest westwards migration

Migrant-on-migrant violence has broken out in Croatia, the latest flashpoint on the Balkans route into Europe after Hungary sealed its border. Footage has surfaced online, filmed today, of fit young men wildly swinging punches and throwing rocks at each other. Cries

Contents: With Hungary blocked to migrants, Croatia becomes overwhelmed; Hungary’s Viktor Orbán defends Europe’s ‘Christian culture’