Balkan Regional Report - June 2025

This report brings together first-hand testimonies from a range of countries in the region to look at the way European Union states and other actors are affecting systemic violence towards people crossing borders.

BVMN is a network of watchdog organisations active in the Balkans, Greece, Turkey, Poland and France including Rigardu, Mobile Info Team, Collective Aid, Blindspots, Pushback Alarm Austria, I Have Rights, Center for Legal Aid – Voice in Bulgaria, Mission Wings, We Are Monitoring, InfoPark, Legal Centre Lesvos, Human Rights Observers and Calais Food Collective. Combining insights from these different members and other partners, such as Glocal Roots (Greece), this month’s report covers, among other things:

• Relocations and rising uncertainty around Krnjača closure in Serbia
• Geopolitical tension in the Aegean and increase of arrivals in Crete
• Degrading reception conditions in Kos and Samos CCACs
• Eid al-Adha holiday marked by increased migration checkpoints nationwide in Turkey
• Evictions of informal living sites in Calais and Dunkirk