Police in Croatia said they had discovered the bodies of four migrants near the Slovenian border on Sunday, along with 15 more people, two of whom had to be taken to hospital. Croatia has intensified its border control measures, including plans to build a migrant reception center at a former military airbase near the border with Bosnia Herzegovina.
A regional court in Landshut has sentenced two men for their roles in a people smuggling network, with the main defendant receiving four years and seven months in prison and his accomplice a suspended sentence of one year and eight months. The court found they coordinated smuggling operations in 2024 that brought migrants into Germany via Austria.
In early October 2025, InfoMigrants traveled to Milan, Monfalcone and Trieste in northern Italy to visit a range of projects and communities of migrants in those cities. Here are a selection of articles from that trip that appeared on the English pages. You can also find more videos in Bengali if you visit InfoMigrants Bengali.
Mixed patrols at the Italo-Slovenian border have been taking place (with some interruptions) since about 2002, but how effective are they at controlling migration at one end of the Balkan route? InfoMigrants joined one patrol to find out and spoke to a legal expert in the capital Ljubljana.
The police chief of the northeastern Italian city of Trieste, Lilia Fredella, has praised the suspension of the Schengen agreement between Italy and Slovenia, stating that the measure has reduced the number of migrants travelling to the country illegally.
Local mayors in the northeastern Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia have written a joint document addressed to the interior and economy ministers to denounce the emergency posed by the high number of unaccompanied foreign minors.
Police and judicial authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia collaborated last week to arrest four suspects accused of smuggling over 600 migrants through the Western Balkans towards Western Europe.
The Italian Consortium of Solidarity (ICS) illustrated on World Refugee Day, June 20, the figures and problems concerning the situation of migrants in the northeastern Italian city of Trieste.
Border police in the northeastern Italian city of Trieste recently arrested eight Turkish citizens on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration through the so-called 'Balkan route'.
The Italian Minister of Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, met with his Slovenian and Croatian counterparts, Boštjan Poklukar and Davor Božinović, during a trilateral meeting in Nova Gorica, Slovenia, on January 20. At a joint press conference, Piantedosi emphasized the significant decrease in irregular migration at Italy’s border with Slovenia.
Italy has announced the extension of the suspension of the Schengen agreements with Slovenia for an additional six months. The measure aims to prevent terrorist infiltration along the Balkan route ahead of the upcoming Jubilee year, a special period of celebration in the Catholic Church.
Slovenian authorities have said that the number of irregular migrants in the country has decreased by 4 percent on an annual basis, according to official data published on August 20. The number of entries by Syrian nationals, however, increased.