135 results for "Romania"
2025-09-29
Frontex hosted a Screening Implementation Workshop in Warsaw on 18–19 September, bringing together EU Member States, Schengen-associated countries, the European Commission and EU agencies. With the new screening rules already established, the focus was on how to put them into practice as of June 2026. What is the Pact (in one paragraph)? The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum is a package of laws that sets a common European approach to migration and asylum. It is intended to facilitate stronger ...
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2012-07-13
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/EB_AO.pdf (3.8 MB) The overall situation at the common and regional borders between the Eastern Border Risk Analysis Network (EB-RAN) members (Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine), the Russian Federation and the neighbouring Member States (Poland, Slovakia, Finland, Norway, Lithuania, Romania, Latvia, Hungary and Estonia) did not change significantly compared to 2010. Analysis of the available statistical data, additional information provided by the ...
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2016-06-06
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/WB_ARA_2016.pdf (4.4 MB) Large-scale migration flow and border management/security The numbers of non-regional migrants transiting the Balkans reached unprecedented and extraordinary levels during 2015 with over 2 million illegal border-crossings reported by all the countries in the region. For comparison, this was roughly 30 times more than in 2014. For several years, the main routes have remained the same: Turkey-Greece-former Yugoslav ...
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2012-05-15
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/WB_ARA_2012.pdf (4.3 MB) The geographical position of the Western Balkans, extensive regional trade and good road infrastructure regularly produce large cross-border flows of people and goods. Regular flow in both directions at the Slovenian-Croatian border, for example, exceeded 47 million persons and 21 million vehicles in 2011. The two numbers represented roughly 6% and 5% increases, respectively, compared to 2010. The ...
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2021-04-29
Frontex took active part in operation 30 Days at Sea, which was globally coordinated by Interpol. As part of the operation aimed at detecting environmental crime, Frontex planes and vessels monitored nearly 1 000 vessels. The operation’s tactical phase included the detection of 1,600 marine pollution offences, often triggering fines and follow-up investigations around the globe. Thousands of suspects, companies and criminal networks engaged in maritime pollution have been detected and ...
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2013-10-15
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q2_2013.pdf (2.5 MB) Overall in Q2 2013 there were 24 805 detections of illegal border-crossing along the external borders of the EU. In comparative terms, this figure represented a 7.4% in-crease in relation to the same quarter in 2012 and a 155% increase compared to the previous quarter. This is the sharpest in-crease between two consecutive quarters ever recorded since 2008, highlighting the rapidly evolving situation at the ...
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2013-04-15
Nothing is easy in deep snow. The simple act of walking is rendered impossible without snow shoes. Other indispensable equipment includes the right clothing, from socks and underwear to gloves and sunglasses, and of course the essential compass and map. Only then, given the right training, do you stand a chance against the elements. Hence the first day of cold-weather survival training for air crews starts with the basics — a run-through of clothing and equipment. Orienteering is an activity ...
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Migratory routes are paths people use to move across borders or within a state. While most travel for business or tourism and follow official land, air or sea routes to reach their destination, others may move outside the regulatory norms. Such irregular movements have many roots and are often provoked by local or regional instability, fragile geopolitical situation of a state, poverty or human rights violations. Frontex monitors the external borders of the European Union to provide a...
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2012-05-18
During Eurocup 2012 Frontex will coordinate a joint operation in support of Polish and Ukrainian border guards. From the beginning of June over 100 officers from 23 EU Member States will be deployed on the Polish-Ukrainian border to assist with border checks and border surveillance. At the same time border guards from several Member States and third countries will be working in key airports in Poland and the Ukraine. What is Frontex’s role during Euro 2012? Big events such as Euro 2012 ...
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2013-06-03
In the chequered world of cross-border crime, few issues are more emotive than the trafficking of children. Cracking down on Trafficking in Human Beings (THB), and especially in women and children, has long been an EU priority. But in border control there remains much to be done. Now a new Frontex initiative hopes to tighten the net. The first comprehensive statistical report on THB in the EU, by Eurostat and released in April, stated that 23,632 people were identified or presumed victims of ...
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