134 results for "Balkan route"
2015-10-07
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q2_2015_final.pdf (10.8 MB) In Q2 2015, all indicators showed increasing trends compared with the situation a year ago. Compared with Q2 2014, detections of illegal border-crossing at the external borders increased by more than 140% and the number of asylum applicants – by two thirds. In relation to the previous quarter all indicators except for illegal border-crossing at BCPs went up, which was traditionally expected after the winter ...
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2015-02-02
Although some data are still missing for December 2014, the number of detections of illegal border-crossing in 2014 as a whole totalled about 278 000. This is two and a half times larger than the year before (107 000) and twice as much as in 2011 (141 000) during the initial stages of the Arab Spring. This increase is mostly connected to the increasing number of refugees and displaced people worldwide, related to the ongoing conflict in Syria and its spread to Iraq, which have created the ...
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2017-02-15
In 2016, migration pressure at Europe’s external borders remained high with the detection of over half a million illegal border-crossings. Frontex estimates that this figure corresponds to about 382 000 migrants coming to Europe from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Compared to the 1.8 million illegal border-crossings reported in 2015, 2016 saw a significant decrease, but this figure is still higher than any annual figure for arrivals between 2010 (104 060) and 2014 (282 933). Most migrants ...
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2013-06-07
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/WB_ARA_2013.pdf (3.3 MB) The Western Balkans has gone through rapid and significant changes regarding irregular migration trends following the introduction of visa-free travel arrangements with Member States and Schengen Associated Countries. For example, the region has transitioned from largely a source to mostly transit area in terms of illegal border-crossings. More precisely, almost three quarters of all detections of illegal ...
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2015-04-28
Last year, the European Union detected the biggest number of illegal border crossings since Frontex data-collection started eight years ago. The record number of 280 000 detections was mainly fuelled by the ongoing fighting in Syria, which has caused the worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. Syrians fleeing their country were the largest group of irregular migrants seeking to enter the EU.Most of the detections were reported as part of search and rescue operations in the Central ...
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2013-04-18
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/Annual_Risk_Analysis_2013.pdf (3.8 MB) Detections of illegal border-crossing along the EU’s external borders dropped sharply in 2012 to about 73 000, i.e. half the number reported in 2011. This was the first time since systematic data collection began in 2008 that annual detections have plunged under 100 000. In the Central Mediterranean area, the large number of detections in 2011, which suddenly increased following the Arab Spring in ...
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2018-02-20
In 2017, the total number of illegal border-crossings into the EU dropped to its lowest in four years, especially due to a fall in detections on the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkan routes, Frontex analysts write in the Risk Analysis for 2018 report released today. The annual total of 204 700 marked a significant decrease compared to recent years, but not yet a return to the situation before 2014, when figures ranged between 72 000 and 141 000 detections.While the comparison on the ...
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2012-05-24
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q4_2011.pdf (2.1 MB) In Q4 2011 most indicators monitored within the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) increased compared to a year ago. For ex-ample, detections of illegal stay, clandestine entries and refusals of entry were all reported in greater numbers than during the same period in 2010. Moreover, more applications for international protection were submitted and more false-document users were detected than in any other ...
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2010-11-19
Frontex has issued the first Annual Risk Assessment from the West Balkans Risk Analysis Network (WB-RAN), produced from analysis of available statistical data from the whole of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, additional information from participating WB-RAN countries and relevant Frontex-coordinated joint operations. Three distinct trends are apparent from the analysis. In terms of size, the greatest irregular migration flow is of Albanians from Albania (and Kosovo) to EU Member States. ...
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2008-04-10
First land border RABITs’ exercise is taking place these days at the border between Slovenia and Croatia. Border Guards from 20 Member States are conducting a real-life border surveillance and border checks as a part of the fictional scenario developed for this exercise. They are deployed to two border crossing points and three green border areas. Region selected for the exercise lies on so called “Balkan Route”, one of major routes of illegal migration towards the European Union. The aim of ...
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