EU 'covered up' Croatia's failure to protect migrants from border brutality

Exclusive: Brussels officials feared disclosing Zagreb's lack of commitment to monitoring would cause scandal'

EU officials have been accused of an outrageous cover-up" after withholding evidence of a failure by Croatia's government to supervise police repeatedly accused of robbing, abusing and humiliating migrants at its borders.

Internal European commission emails seen by the Guardian reveal officials in Brussels had been fearful of a backlash when deciding against full disclosure of Croatia's lack of commitment to a monitoring mechanism that ministers had previously agreed to fund with EU money.