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A consortium of international banks, involving the major part of Croatia's banking system, on Thursday announced a lawsuit against the Croatian government's over its decision to solve the problem of loans in Swiss francs by converting them into euro.

Bulgaria detained 125 migrants on Wednesday night in Sofia for illegally crossing the country without submitting asylum requests, in a further sign of policy divisions in the Balkans on how to handle the flow of westward-bound refugees.

The police in the Greek city of Thessaloniki detained a Bulgarian citizen for illegal trafficking of immigrants with a truck carrying 103 people, 19 of whom children.

According to media reports, each of the refugees had paid EUR 2000 for being transported across the border.

The number of people detained over the suspected trafficking of the 71 migrants, who were found dead in an abandoned truck in Austria last week, has risen to seven.

The latest arrests were that of a man in Bulgaria and another one in Hungary.

One person has been arrested in Bulgaria over last week's incident in which the bodies of 71 migrants were found in a truck near the Austria-Hungary border, investigative sources have told the Bulgarian National Radio.

The main international train station in Budapest has been reopened for traffic on Tuesday, but refugees are still not allowed to enter it.

Earlier in the day, Hungarian authorities stopped all trains from leaving the main station in order to prevent migrants traveling to Austria and Germany, RT reported.

Bulgaria's Economy Minister Bozhidar Lukarski assured that the inspections on the quality of the fuels at petrol stations will continue.

In an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) on Tuesday, Lukarski stated that the fuel, which is sold at petrol stations has a higher quality.

Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova has ruled out that the organized criminal gang smuggling migrants into Austria could be based in Bulgaria.

Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic has said that border controls Austria has introduced in order to stop the wave of migrants will "unequivocally affect Serbia, too."

Bulgaria should have called a regional summit to tackle the migrant crisis, instead of mobilizing the army to guard its borders, a recent analysis reads on the EUInside.

It says the former option would have helped see what is most needed by countries affected by the influx of migrants such as Serbia, Macedonia and Greece.