Hundreds of migrants arrested in Bulgaria

Bulgaria arrested hundreds of migrants in special police operations this week, Balkan Insight reports. Police arrested 162 migrants in Sofia, and they stopped 45 migrants from crossing into Serbia. The migrants arrested on the Bulgarian-Serbian border were reportedly...

EU insists on Serbian cooperation over war crimes

As part of membership negotiations, the EU is requiring that Serbia cooperate with its Balkan neighbors on war crimes issues, Balkan Insight reports. Croatia had been blocking Serbia’s EU accession bid and mandating that Belgrade change a law that allows it to...

New migrant crisis in the making in the Balkans

More than 1,000 migrants have now piled up on the Serbian side of the Serbia-Hungary border, AP reports. Migrants are crossing through Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia and then getting turned away by Hungary, which is only allowing 15 people to apply for asylum daily and...