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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

Authorities in Slovenia say around 2,000 migrants from a refugee camp at the Croatian border are traveling in four trains toward Austria, three to the overloaded crossing at Šentilj and the other to Jesenice.
2015-10-22

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

Croatia allows some asylum seekers to move on past its borders into Hungary and Slovenia.
2015-09-19

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