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Croatia's Operation Storm was a joint criminal enterprise whose goal was to expel the Serb people in Croatia from the areas they lived in for centuries.

This has been stated by the head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta. He spoke for Serbia's state broadcaster RTS on the occasion of the upcoming 20th anniversary of Croatia's military and police campaign.

The Croatian government on Thursday agreed to take in 550 refugees and asylum seekers from outside Europe, acting on a decision adopted by the EU Council in July.

This aimed at the relocation of 40,000 asylum seekers currently settled in Italy and Greece around Europe and resettlement of an additional 20,000 currently outside Europe.

Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday said his country is willing to accept a share of the 40,000 refugees, mainly from Syria and Eritrea, who recently arrived in Greece and Italy, which Brussels wants distributed round the EU.

Milanovic made the offer ahead of an EU summit dominated by migration issues and the Greek crisis.

Scheme to lure moviemakers with the offer of tax breaks yields rewards as more producers head for Croatia.

Thessaloniki Motorcyclist Ilias vrochidis, aged 31, started a journey in July 2013 aimed at exploring Balkan and African countries so as to deliver letters to the families and friends of migrants who have come to Greece. His goal was to raise public awareness on migrant issues.

Organisers of Saturday's Zagreb Pride parade are appealing for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and any citizens concerned about the repression of human rights to gather in the city centre in support of this year's anti-fascism theme.

The president of the European Journalism Federation, EFJ,  Mogens Blicher Bjerregard, said his organization will not and must not allow Balkan authorities "to arrest our colleagues, threaten them, and want them to be silent".