‘EU complicit’ in Croatia treatment of migrants

The European Union is “complicit” in Croatian police’s “violent pushbacks” of thousands of asylum seekers because it is funding border security in the Balkan country, Amnesty International said yesterday. Last year about 25,000 migrants from Asia, the Middle East and North Africa went through the Balkans to slip through EU member state Croatia to other western European countries. Several thousand were thwarted by Croatian border police and are now marooned in migrant centres in Bosnia. The EU is complicit because it has “continued to allocate significant funds to assist Croatia in its border security infrastructure”, Amnesty said.