Croatia police accused of abusing refugees
International aid organizations have reported that Croatian police are using violence to push refugees back into neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatian authorities
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Europe migrant crisis
Frontex: Irregular border crossings into EU dropped in first seven months of 2018
In the first seven months of 2018, the number of irregular border crossings into the EU via the top four
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Asylum applications in EU roughly unchanged in early summer 2018
The downward trend in the number of asylum applications in the EU continued in the first half of 2018, according
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European Commission proposes paying 6000 euro per migrant to countries hosting ‘controlled centres’
The European Commission has expanded on its concept of “controlled centres” for the processing of migrants disembarked in the EU,
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Refugee centres in Bulgaria ‘almost empty’ – report
Refugee centres in Bulgaria are almost empty and there has been a significant decline in applications for protection, Bulgarian National
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PM Borissov: Bulgaria ‘only country in EU that has coped with migrants’
To date, Bulgaria is the only country in the European Union that has coped with migrants and has even been
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Bulgaria expelled 1755 non-EU nationals in 2017 – Eurostat
Bulgaria returned a total of 1755 non-EU nationals to their countries in 2017 after issuing them orders to leave, according
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Merkel advocates bilateral, trilateral deals over migrants to EU
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday downplayed expectations that the EU summit next Thursday will be able to come to
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Borissov: Bulgaria showed that as a front-line country, it can cope with refugee pressure
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, speaking on June 24 ahead of a meeting of EU leaders on migration and asylum,
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