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Greece

Despite closing of Balkans migrant route, many still arrive in Greece

The controversial closing of the Balkans route for migrants is not putting off thousands still arriving in Greece

Greece

German Chancellor criticises closure of Balkans route for migrants

Macedonian officials have closed the border with Greece, while Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia have also imposed tough restrictions

Europe News

No sign Balkan border measures have cut refugee arrivals yet, says UNHCR

Greece has borne the brunt of the arrivals from the Middle East, with many refugees and migrants making the journey from Turkey in makeshift boats

Europe News

Croatian PM calls for more EU help with refugees

Croatia’s prime minister has called on the EU to do more to help governments struggling with the influx of refugees and migrants. Croatia is one of

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Austria

EU warns Austria over daily migrant quotas

In the latest angry rift in Europe’s migration crisis, new Austrian limits on the numbers of refugees allowed to cross its borders have infuriated

World News

In Greece and going nowhere: The barrier blocking migrants' hopes of a new life in Western Europe

Tension remained high on Sunday on the border with Greece after the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia built a barrier this weekend to control the

Serbia

Thousands trapped as Balkans filter migrant flow to Europe

Balkan countries have begun a priority system to stem the flow of migrants to Europe. The aim is to give priority to those fleeing conflicts instead

Slovenia

EU stiffens border controls but human bottlenecks shiver in the cold and rain

Twenty-four hours after the EU’s special central and eastern European member states’ summit on the refugee crisis and there are already signs that

Serbia

EU strives for common stance as spats mark response to Balkan migrant crisis

As tens of thousands of migrants stream across the Balkans splits, spats and threats are features of the European response. Three Balkan leaders vow

Montenegro

Montenegro: Clashes as demonstrators demand resignation of veteran PM Djukanovic

Feelings ran high on Saturday night as some 5,000 demonstrators gathered outside Montenegro’s parliament to demand the resignation of veteran Prime

Europe News

Thousands of refugees enter Slovenia as Ljubljana seeks EU help

More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the last 24 hours and thousands more are expected. Thousands of refugees, most of them from

World News

Migrants: the EU calls an emergency summit to tackle the Balkan bottleneck

Thousands head across the fields from Berkasovo-Bapska Around 3,500 refugees and migrants have spent the night camped out in the open at the

Croatia

Balkan bottleneck as thousands of migrants stranded at Serbo-Croat border

Thousands of migrants are stranded in appalling conditions at the border between Serbia and Croatia. The tide of wet,cold and exhausted human beings

Austria

EU leaders discuss migrant crisis in western Balkan summit

EU leaders are gathering in the Austrian capital Vienna to discuss how to deal with the influx of migrants to the region. About 100,000 people, many

World News

Western Balkans lock horns with migration this Thursday

Europe still has not decided how it should respond… The number of migrants who have arrived by the Mediterranean this year has exceeded 225,000

Hungary

Journalist György Kakuk documents refugee journey deep into Europe

Hungarian journalist György Kakuk, who initially did not reveal his name, joined refugees traveling north from the Former Yugoslav Republic of

My Europe Series

Liberland: utopian tax-free micronation or state of mind?

Tucked away on the banks of the Danube is the tiny, would-be country of Liberland. The former Czech politician who declared himself its founder and

Germany

Merkel breaks off dealing with Greece to visit Balkans

Angela Merkel is in the Western Balkans, on the first leg of a tour that will also take the German Chancellor to Serbia and Bosnia. Her visit sends a

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Srebrenica: Russia vetoes UN resolution to recognise massacre as genocide

Russia has wielded its veto in the UN Security Council to block a resolution that would recognise the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as genocide. As

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Europe marks 20 years since Srebrenica massacre

Thousands of marchers in Bosnia and Herzegovina have joined survivors of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Holocaust: the slaughter of some 8,000