Law enforcement in Europe

Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic on Thursday said Croatia was demanding am EU meeting in order to implement the European Commission plan on refugees.

The Slovenian military started to set up a barbed wire fence on the border with Croatia on Wednesday, media reports confirmed. The Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar announced the move on Tuesday.

The fence is being built to stop Middle-Eastern refugees from illegally entering the country using informal border crossings and divert the refugees to regular border crossings.

If Europe fails to control its external borders, it will be destroyed, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said stressing that safeguarding EU borders is necessary to safeguard the free movement of people within Schengen Agreement.

The European Commission has concluded that the initial reintroduction of controls at internal borders by Germany and Austria are in compliance with the Schengen Borders Code.

The same holds true for the subsequent prolongations of border controls, the EU executive body said on Friday.

The shooting death of a migrant near Bulgaria's border with Turkey is showing once again the need of a common policy on the security of European Union borders, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva has said.

EU Parliament President Martin Schulz warned Bulgarian authorities must protect the EU's external borders regardless of the fact that the country is not part of the Schengen borderless area.

Schulz made his comment on Thursday evening after attending an EU summit where the migrant crisis was the first item on the agenda.

An operational forum on countering migrant smuggling networks brings together participants from some 50 source, transit and destination countries affected by irregular migration flows, Europol has announced.

A session of the European Council for Justice and Home Affairs, JHA, scheduled for Thursday, will now not discuss the admission of Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area, as a decision has been postponed to the end of the year.

The decision on Bulgaria and Romania's Schengen bids will be postponed yet again and will not be part of the agenda of the meeting of EU foreign ministers this week, according to sources close to the matter, as cited by the Bulgarian National Radio.

We are in the middle of one of the most contradictory moments in history. Two currents are flowing in opposite directions and pulling nation-states at both ends.