134 results for "Balkan route"
2017-08-01
Files available for download FRAN Q1 2017 (4.2 MB) In the first quarter of 2017, the indicator of illegal border-crossings at the EU’s external borders continued to be at a significantly low level relative to the first quarter of 2016, after which the closure of the Western Balkan route and the EU-Turkey statement ended the unprecedented irregular migration flow into the EU and Schengen area. On the one hand, the number of detections decreased by 86% compared to one year ago. On the other hand, ...
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2016-08-25
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q1_2016_final.pdf (4.6 MB) After the FRAN indicators of illegal border-crossing between BCPs, illegal stay, and asylum had reached record levels in the fourth quarter of 2015, the situation clearly relaxed at the beginning of 2016. On one hand, the irregular migration pressure continuously decreased between January and March 2016. On the other hand, the reporting period still showed the highest level of irregular migration of any ...
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2022-05-16
Between January and April, there were about 57 800 irregular entries to the European Union, according to preliminary calculations*. This is 69% more than in the first four months of last year. Refugees fleeing Ukraine and entering the EU through border crossing points are not part of the figures of illegal entries detected. According to the latest Frontex data, more than 5.9 million people have entered the EU from Ukraine and Moldova since the beginning of invasion in February. In April, ...
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2023-01-13
In 2022, around 330 000 irregular border crossings were detected at EU’s external border, according to preliminary calculations*. This is the highest number since 2016 and an increase of 64% from the previous year. After the pandemic-induced low in 2020, this was the second year in a row with a steep rise in the number of irregular entries. The Western Balkan route accounted for nearly half of the total. Syrians, Afghans and Tunisians together accounted for 47% of the detections in 2022. The ...
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2018-09-12
Files available for download FRAN Q4 2017 (706.7 KB) In the fourth quarter of 2017, the number of detections of illegal border-crossing (IBC) between Border Crossing Points at the EU’s external border was at the lowest level for a fourth quarter since 2013, and at the second-lowest level for any quarter since the EU-Turkey Statement entered into force. The 39% fall compared to Q4 2016, reflects in particular strong decreases on the Central Mediterranean and the Western Balkan routes, against ...
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2019-07-03
Files available for download WB Q2 2018 (765.3 KB) Key findings Overall, the number of illegal border-crossings by non-regional[1] migrants recorded at the green borders rose in Q2 2018. The main Serbia-centred route appears to have regained attractiveness, with more migrants attempting to enter the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and move towards Serbia. After reaching Serbia migrants prefer moving towards Bosnia and Herzegovina–Croatia and further north, while the pressure at Hungary, ...
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2017-03-07
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q3_2016.pdf (4.2 MB) In the third quarter of 2016, the indicator of illegal border-crossings at the EU’s external borders did not exceed the level to which it had dropped in March 2016, when the closure of the Western Balkan route and the EU-Turkey statement ended the unhindered migratory flow into the EU and Schengen area. On the one hand, the number of related detections decreased by 87% compared with one year before. On the other ...
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2021-12-15
The number of illegal border crossings at EU’s external borders in the first eleven months of 2021 rose to 184 180, an increase of 60% when compared to the previous year with COVID-19 restrictions. It is also 45% more than in 2019. In November, there were about 22 450 detections of illegal border crossings on the main migratory routes into the European Union, nearly in line with 2020 and 35% more than two years ago. While the situation at the Eastern Border has started to de-escalate in ...
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2014-05-15
Detections of illegal border crossing at the EU external borders increased sharply in 2013, rising to over 107,000 from 75,000 in 2012, with Syrians, Eritreans and Afghans being the most commonly detected nationalities. Migration towards the EU in 2013 was characterised by three main phenomena: a significant increase in the number of Syrians arriving, a steady flow of migrants departing from North Africa and heading across the Mediterranean to Italy, and a sharp increase in detections of ...
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2016-10-10
The record number of migrants arriving in Greece in 2015 and in the first quarter of 2016 had a direct knock-on effect on the Western Balkan route, as the people who entered the EU via Greece tried to make their way via the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia*, Serbia into Hungary and Croatia and then towards western Europe. This led to unprecedented numbers of detections of illegal crossings at Hungary’s and Croatia’s borders with Serbia.To assist the EU members most affected by the ...
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