134 results for "Balkan route"
2018-12-06
Files available for download FRAN Q1 2018 (4.1 MB) In the first quarter of 2018, Member States reported a further significant drop in the detection of illegal border-crossings along the EU’s external borders, both in comparison to the previous quarter and in comparison with the first quarter of 2017. Adverse weather conditions in the Mediterranean, the prevention of departure in the Central Mediterranean by the Libyan Coast Guard and the fall in detections reported by MS neighbouring the ...
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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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2020-01-08
The number of irregular border crossings detected on the European Union’s external borders last year fell to the lowest level since 2013 due to a drop in the number of people reaching European shores via the Central and Western Mediterranean routes. Preliminary 2019 data collected by Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, showed a 6% fall in illegal border crossings along the EU’s external borders to just over 139 000. This is 92% below the record number set in 2015. The number of ...
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2025-01-14
New preliminary data from Frontex reveal a significant 38% drop in irregular border crossings into the EU in 2024, reaching the lowest level since 2021, when migration was still affected by the COVID pandemic. Despite persistent migration pressure, intensified EU and partner cooperation against smuggling networks has significantly reduced crossings at Europe’s external borders, with just over 239 000 detections recorded last year. The decrease in the total number was mainly driven by a 59% ...
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2017-12-06
Files available for download FRAN Q2 2017 (4 MB) In the second quarter of 2017, the overall number of detected illegal border-crossings at the EU’s external borders was approximately on a par with the corresponding quarter of 2016, i.e. just after the EU-Turkey statement was signed and the Western Balkan route effectively closed. As the statement still holds and the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkan routes are ever more difficult to traverse successfully, the ...
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2023-09-14
The number of detections of irregular border crossings at EU’s external borders rose by one fifth (+18%) in the first eight months of 2023 to over 232 350, the highest total for the January-August period since 2016, according to preliminary calculations*. The increase was primarily driven by the number of arrivals through the Central Mediterranean, which remains the main migratory route into the EU and accounts for one of every two detections at EU borders. The number of irregular crossings on ...
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2024-10-15
The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union fell by 42% to 166 000 in the first nine months of this year, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex.* The most significant declines in irregular border crossings were observed on the Western Balkan and Central Mediterranean routes, with a 79% and 64% decline, respectively. Over 3 000 Frontex officers and staff are deployed across Europe to help manage the EU’s external borders. Key highlights for the first nine ...
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2018-07-25
Last week, a Frontex surveillance airplane started monitoring the EU’s external borders in the Western Balkans area as part of Frontex Multipurpose Aerial Surveillance (MAS). This is a swift and tailored response to the request made by Croatian authorities to monitor the migration flows and help Croatia, as well as the neighbouring Western Balkan countries, address the challenges on the ground.MAS uses surveillance planes that stream video and other data directly to the Frontex Situation Centre ...
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2021-08-12
The number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders in the first seven months of 2021 reached over 82 000, 59% more than the total from a year ago, according to preliminary calculations. In July, Frontex registered 17 300 illegal border crossings, 33% more than in the same month last year and slightly more than in the previous month (14 600). Migratory pressure continued to build up on the eastern frontiers of the European Union with more than 3000 illegal entries from Belarus ...
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2022-03-23
The number of illegal border crossings at EU’s external borders in the first two months of 2022 rose 61% from a year ago to nearly 27 000*, according to preliminary calculations. In the month of February, there were 11 850 detections of illegal border crossings, about a quarter more than in the same month of 2021. The total does not include the people who have been fleeing Ukraine since the country was invaded by Russian forces in late February.Western Balkan Route (+98% January-February 2022) ...
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