134 results for "Balkan route"
2025-09-12
Irregular entries into the European Union dropped by 21% in the first eight months of 2025, reaching 112 375 according to preliminary figures from Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.* With more than 3 700 Frontex officers deployed in support of national authorities, the EU continues to strengthen border protection while working to safeguard lives at sea. Key Highlights: Significant drops on the Western Balkan (-47%), Eastern Land Border (-44%), and Western African (-52%) ...
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2025-10-10
Irregular entries into the European Union decreased 22% in the first nine months of 2025, reaching 133 400 according to preliminary data from Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency.* Across Europe, more than 3 600 Frontex officers continue to assist national authorities in safeguarding the EU’s external borders. Key highlights: Strong declines on the Western African (-58%), Western Balkan (-47%), and Eastern Land Border (-36%) routes. The Central Mediterranean is the busiest ...
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2018-04-18
Files available for download WB Q4 2017 (791 KB) Key findings:The number of illegal border-crossings by non-regional migrants recorded at the green borders decreased in Q4 2017 compared with Q3 2017; it was also lower than that reported in the corresponding quarters over the previous five years.Further indication that migrants are searching for alternative routing to bypass the enhanced controls on the main Serbiacentred corridor was observed in Q4:-In November and December 2017, more ...
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2023-05-15
In the first four months of the year the number of detections of irregular border crossings at EU’s external borders reached nearly 80 700, nearly 30% more than a year ago and the highest total for the January-April period since 2016, according to preliminary calculations*. The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union across the Central Mediterranean in the first four months of 2023 quadrupled from the same period a year earlier, rising to the highest level since Frontex ...
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2011-05-01
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/WB_ARA_2011.pdf (2.6 MB) When compared to 2009, the overall situation at the common borders between Western Balkan countries and their EU neighbours did not change dramatically in 2010. The only important change is linked with the visa liberalisation process for Western Balkan countries that has led to a sharp rise in asylum abuse throughout the EU and put the region in the spot light again. Consequently, this development is described in ...
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2015-07-09
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q1_2015.pdf (9.4 MB) In the first quarter of 2015, all indicators showed increasing trends compared to the situation a year ago. However, compared to the previous quarter (last quarter of 2014), the indicators were down, as traditionally expected during winter months. Yet, two important indicators (detections of illegal border-crossing and illegal stay) were the largest ever recorded for a first quarter of the year since data ...
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2022-04-14
The first quarter of this year was the busiest in terms of illegal border crossings at the EU’s external borders since the migratory crisis in 2016. Refugees fleeing Ukraine and entering the EU through border crossing points are not part of the figures of illegal entries detected. Preliminary calculations by Frontex show that more than 40 300* illegal crossings were detected between January and March of 2022, 57% more than a year ago. In the month of March, nearly 11 700 irregular migrants were ...
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2016-01-22
Thousands of migrants continued to arrive in Greece and Italy in December despite difficult weather conditions, bringing the total number of detections in the two countries to 1.04 million in all of 2015. This is nearly five times the figure from the previous year. In December, 108 000 migrants were detected in Greece, down from 155 000 the previous month, but still 40 times the figure from December 2014. This brought the total number of migrant arrivals in Greece in 2015 to 880 000.The Greek ...
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2017-10-18
In September, there were approximately 13 900 detections of illegal border crossings on the four main migratory routes into the EU.The total number of detections on the four main migratory routes in the first nine months of 2017 fell by 64% from the same period of last year to 156 000. Central MediterraneanIn September, the number of migrants arriving in Italy through the Central Mediterranean fell by more than two-thirds from the same month of last year to 5 600. But the monthly figure in ...
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2017-05-16
There were more than 14 100 detections of illegal border crossings on the three main migratory routes into the EU in April, 2% higher than the number of detections from the previous month. The total number of detections in the first four months of 2017 fell 84% from the same period of last year to almost 47 000, even though Italy continued to see numbers higher than a year ago. Central Mediterranean In April, the number of migrants arriving in Italy through the Central Mediterranean route rose ...
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