134 results for "Balkan route"
2022-07-14
In the first half of 2022, there were about 114 720* irregular entries to the European Union, according to preliminary calculations. This is about 84% more than in the same period last year. The most significant increase was recorded on the Western Balkan route, where the number of detections increased nearly 3-fold compared with the first six months of 2021. This increase can be attributed to crossing attempts by migrants already present in the Western Balkans. People fleeing Ukraine and ...
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2022-12-12
In the first eleven months of this year, more than 308 000 irregular entries were detected at the external borders of the European Union, according to preliminary calculations.* This represents an increase of 68% compared with the same period of last year and is the highest since 2016. The Western Balkan route remains the most active, with 45% of all irregular entry detections to the European Union recorded since the beginning of the year. In November, EU member states recorded about 27 000 ...
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2022-06-13
Between January and May, 86 420 irregular entries were detected at the European Union’s external borders, according to preliminary calculations*. This is 82% more than in the same period of last year. In May, Frontex registered around 23 500 irregular crossings, up 75% from the same month last year. People fleeing Ukraine and entering the EU through border crossing points are not part of the figures of illegal entries detected. According to the latest Frontex data, more than 5.5 million ...
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2023-11-15
The number of detections of irregular border crossings at EU’s external borders rose by 18% in the first ten months of 2023 to nearly 331 600, the highest total for the period since 2015, according to preliminary calculations*. The Western African route has seen the biggest rise in the number of irregular crossings, which nearly doubled so far this year to over 27 700. This is the highest total for this migratory route since Frontex began collecting data in 2009. The number of arrivals (13 000) ...
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2021-10-15
The number of illegal border crossings at EU’s external borders in the first nine months of 2021 rose 68% to 133 900*, according to preliminary calculations. This is 47% more than in 2019 before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic when the number of illegal border crossings amounted to 91 000. In September, there were 23 630 illegal border crossings on Europe’s main migratory routes, 40% more than in 2020 when pandemic-related border restrictions were in place. It is also an increase of 17% ...
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2020-12-16
The number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders fell 8% in the first 11 months of this year to 116 840*, largely because of a drop in arrivals in Eastern and Western Mediterranean, according to preliminary calculations. Meanwhile, the Western African route continued to see record numbers of irregular migrants. In November, the number of illegal border crossings was 30% higher than in the previous month, reaching nearly 22 800. Western AfricaMore than 8 150 irregular migrants ...
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2023-07-14
In the first six months of this year, the number of detections of irregular border crossings at EU’s external borders reached 132 370, the highest total for the first half of the year since 2016 and 10% more than a year ago, according to preliminary calculations*.The Central Mediterranean remains the main migratory route into the EU, accounting for nearly half of all detections at EU borders in the January-June period. The number of detections rose to almost 65 600, the highest number on this ...
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2024-12-13
In the first 11 months of 2024, irregular border crossings into the European Union dropped by 40%, to 220 700, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex*. This significant decline was mainly driven by sharp drops on the Western Balkan (-80%) and the Central Mediterranean migratory routes (-60%). Meanwhile, the Western African route has already surpassed the total number of irregular arrivals in all of last year, putting the total for 2024 at the highest level since Frontex began to ...
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2022-11-14
In the first ten months of this year, 281 000 irregular entries were detected at the external borders of the European Union, according to preliminary calculations.* This represents an increase of 77% compared with the same period of last year and is the highest since 2016. The Western Balkan route into the European Union remains the most active.In October, EU Member States recorded about 42 000 irregular crossings, 71% more than in the same month in 2021.In total, more than 2 300 standing corps ...
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2016-11-15
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_2016_Q2.pdf (4.5 MB) After the FRAN indicators of illegal border-crossing between BCPs, illegal stay and asylum hit record levels in the second half of 2015, the values dropped significantly by the second quarter of 2016. The irregular migration pressure at the EU’s external borders has been continuously easing after October 2015. The total number of illegal border-crossings during the reviewed period amounted to less than half of the ...
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