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Merkel Offers Montenegro Help to Fight Corruption
Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic said he talked with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Friday about "shortcomings and weaknesses" related to the fight against organised crime and corruption in Montenegro.
Greek-Albanian border region closely monitored
Despite a 31 percent drop in migrant inflows via the Greek-Albanian border since the beginning of the year, the European Union's border agency Frontex remains on the alert in Ioannina, northwestern Greece.
Montenegro to Deploy Troops to Deter Migrants
Montenegro's government has authorised the Defence Ministry to deploy the army to help handle a migrant crisis, granting the military the right to deploy a range of joint patrols with police forces.
Migrants get stranded on Drina River/VIDEO
SRNA agency received confirmation of this from Zvornik border police chief Mirel Imamovic.
Imamovic said that the group of migrants had attempted to cross into Bosnia from Serbia, but failed due to the river's high water.. Instead they got stranded on a river island.
Merkel speaks against "changing borders in Balkans"
"But apparently, that needs to be repeated every now and then," Merkel told a news conference on Monday in Berlin after a meeting with the chairman of Bosnia-Herzegovina Council of Ministers, Denis Zvizdic.
Center for preservation of Serbian language, culture opens
According to the Serbian government, Brnabic said that her cabinet will support the center, which will be "equally important for humanistic social sciences as the science-research station Petnica is for natural sciences."
Balkan Migrants in Germany Number 2.6 Million
Over 2.6 million of the 19.3 million people in Germany with migrant backgrounds come from Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Kosovo, the latest census data from the German Federal Statistical Office, Destatis, show.
Croatian Police Accused Again of Brutality to Migrants
No Name Kitchen, NNK, an NGO that helps migrants and refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina, on Wednesday on social networks accused Croatian police of beating a migrant and documented the claim with a photograph of his injured back.
It said its volunteers were dining on Tuesday in the town of Velika Kladusa when the man arrived and asked them to check his injuries.
Migrants move into Radovan Karadzic's apartment
These reports quote neighbors who said the migrants broke into one of the apartments on the ground floor of a building where Karadzic's wife has her apartment, and then into another, where the family lived until the spring of 1992.
The neighbors claim they saw the migrants break into "one of the apartments" and stayed there.
Bosnian Mayors to Protest Against Refugee Centres
A group of about 50 local councillors and mayors from northwestern Bosnia said they will protest on Thursday in Sarajevo in front of state institutions over what they call mistaken attempts to resolve the growing migration crisis.
Hungary's Orban Offers Montenegro Help in 'Defending' its Borders
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban offered on Tuesday to help Montenegro "defend" its borders from a rising number of migrants and refugees, but his Montengrin counterpart said there was no need yet for a Hungarian-style fence.
Aleksandar Vucic: Serbia has Surpassed Bulgaria and has Better Standard of Living
Serbian President Aleksandar Vukic said his country has already outperformed Bulgaria in regards to average salary. Currently in Serbia it is 424 euros.
Bosnians Keep Arguing Over New Migrant Centre
Both the UN and a growing population of migrants and refugees in Bosnia are waiting for officials to agree on the location of a new migrants camp, since many of them are now living in improvised shelters, tents and old abandoned buildings, especially in the north of the country near the border with Croatia and the EU.
German government toppling "would be bad news for Balkans"
This includes the nomalization of the relations between Belgrade and Pristina, says professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade Dragan Djukanovic.
Croatia Arrests Bosnian Serb for Manjaca Camp Crimes
Police arrested a Bosnian Serb who was crossing the border into Croatia on suspicion of ordering the inhumane treatment of prisoners at the wartime Manjaca prison camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina.