19/09/2024 – 10/10/2025

  • As reported by AP news on 6 October 2025, a Chinese migrant has died following the capsizing of a boat with at least 10 Chinese nationals on the Danube river between Serbia and Croatia. According to Serbian police, the group was trying to cross the border in an irregular manner.  
  • In a press release on 19 September 2025, EUROPOL reported it had arrested four people involved in smuggling 600 migrants across the Western Balkans. The operation involved law enforcement officials and judicial authorities from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, and according to the agency, has ‘dismantled’ the criminal smuggling network.