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The European Union's emergency response coordination centre issues red alerts due to extreme heat in Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, most of Italy, and parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain.
2023-07-18

Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia shut their borders to so-called economic migrants, those not coming from war-torn countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, or Iraq, leaving thousands stranded at Balkan border crossings. Around 500 migrants from Iran, Morocco, and Algeria gather on the border between Greece and Macedonia to protest the closure.
2015-11-20

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, when discussing management of the flow of migrants with the press, talks about "technical security" measures but insists there will be "no fence" at the Slovenian border. This, in contrast to Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner who earlier spoke of plans for a "fence" on the border to Slovenia. Austria has been one of the more vocal countries criticizing Hungary's decision to build a fence along its border with Serbia.
2015-10-28

Croatia reopens its border with Serbia allowing thousands of refugees to cross.
2015-10-19

Hungary's parliament passes a law allowing the Hungarian military to help handle the migrant crisis at its borders with Serbia and Croatia, including the right to use non-lethal force such as rubber bullets, pyrotechnical devices, tear gas grenades or net guns.
2015-09-21

Hungarian security forces confiscate a Croatian train carrying 1000 migrants and disarm 40 Croatian police officers accompanying the migrants. Hungarian authorities repatriate the officers.
2015-09-19

Croatia closes seven out of eight border crossings with Serbia. Zoran Milanović, the Prime Minister, says that his country "will move migrants on".
2015-09-18

Dozens of migrants reach the border of Serbia and Croatia which has become the new route for migrants denied entry to Hungary.
2015-09-16

Serbia arrests Goran Hadžić, a Croatian Serb wartime leader, indicted for alleged crimes against humanity during the Croatian War of Independence.
2011-07-20