15 results for "return 2014"
2016-01-28
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/AFIC/AFIC_report_2015.pdf (5.7 MB) Legal travel channels to the EU available for most West Africans are quite narrow. Some AFIC countries have visa rejection rates close to 50%. This high rate indicates that irregular migratory movements from the AFIC region to the EU are largely perceived as economic migration by consular authorities in the EU. When measured in terms of the number of refusals of entry issued per 1 000 passengers, flights ...
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2016-04-05
Last year, an estimated one million migrants arrived in Europe, accounting for the record number of 1.82 million detections of illegal border crossings reported by EU Member States. The number of detections was more than six times the previous record set in 2014. A large number of illegal crossings were made by people who were counted for the first time when arriving on the Greek islands from Turkey and later were counted again when crossing one of EU’s external borders in the Western Balkans. ...
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2017-07-25
Files available for download WB ARA 2017 (6.8 MB) Bringing the unprecedented migration flow back under control / coordination and cooperation remain crucial An array of response measures, ranging from coordinated enhancement of border-controls by the most affected countries to policy actions supported by the EU, contributed to a marked reduction in the volume of the non-regional1 migratory flow transiting the Eastern Mediterranean and subsequently the Western Balkans. Overall, on the Western ...
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2017-02-15
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/Annual_Risk_Analysis_2017.pdf (13.5 MB) In 2016, a drop in detections reported at the external borders with Turkey and Western Balkan countries led to an over all decrease in detections of illegal border-crossing at EU level. However, with over half a million detections (511 371), the figure is still significantly higher than any yearly total between 2010 (104 060) and 2014 (282 933). This means that the pressure on the external ...
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Frontex is an EU agency responsible for supporting EU Member States and Schengen-associated countries in the management of the EU’s external borders and the fight against cross-border crime. The Agency is governed by a system of checks and balances designed to ensure full accountability , transparency , and respect for fundamental rights , also known as human rights. Frontex is accountable to the European Parliament, which represents EU citizens, and to the Council, which represents Member...
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