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Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic called on the army to be on alert and act if needed to protect the border from the migrants, after chaos erupted Thursday on the border with Serbia in a rush to get on the few available buses and trains, the AP said.

Croatia says that seven of its eight borders with Serbia have been blocked.

Social affairs minister Aleksandar Vulin said Serbia will take Croatia to global courts if the border crossings remain closed, arguing that Croatia should have been prepared for the influx.

The Coast Guard officers who rushed to the site after being alerted by a Greek armed forces patrol recovered the girl’s body and rescued 12 people, reported Xinhua news agency.

According to the global Organization for Migration, there have been more than 2,700 migrant fatalities in the Mediterranean Sea this year, 103 of them in the waters between Greece and Turkey.

Huge numbers of people heading north from the Mediterranean have created a political crisis in the European Union.

There were desperate scenes at a railway station on Croatia’s eastern frontier with Serbia, where thousands were left stranded overnight under open skies.

The government has set up a crisis body to deal with the thousands of migrants who began transiting through Croatia after Hungary closed its border with Serbia and imposed a crackdown on migrants earlier in the week. The migrants would prefer the quicker route to Europe through...

But they have little choice after Hungary sealed off its southern border with Serbia on Tuesday and began arresting anyone caught trying to enter the country illegally.

Croatia on Friday began busing thousands of migrants and refugees to its northeastern frontier with Hungary, with at least two coachloads crossing the frontier, an AFP correspondent said.

“If you focus on things to bring people together, that’s what you’re going to get”, he said.

The summit was called with different purposes in mind, but by the time Balkan leaders reached Austria it was obvious that the refugee situation was more urgent than infrastructure deals. But critics will be disappointed that more decisive action was not taken, given the scale of...

Migrants have been streaming into European Union member Croatia for two days, their path into the bloc via Hungary blocked by a metal fence, the threat of imprisonment and riot police who fired teargas and water cannon on Wednesday to drive back stone-throwing men. Later, a train...

Slovenia Prime Minister Miro Cerar tweated Thursday that his country is committed to protecting the EU’s external borders.

“We are so exhausted”, said Hikmat, a bare-footed 32-year-old Syrian woman from Damascus, after a journey, like many others, by sea and then through the Balkans to the border between the two former Yugoslav republics. They estimate that more than 300,000 have passed...