134 results for "Balkan route"
2024-06-14
The number of irregular border crossings into the European Union in the first five months of 2024 fell by nearly a quarter (23%) to nearly 80 000, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex. The Western Balkans and Central Mediterranean saw the biggest drops in detections of irregular crossings among the major migratory routes (-71% and -58%, respectively), while the Western African and Eastern Mediterranean routes experienced the highest increases (+303% and +103%, respectively). Key ...
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2023-04-12
In the first three months of 2023, the number of irregular border crossings reported by national authorities increased to 54 000, 26% more than in the same period last year. The Central Mediterranean and Western Balkan routes remain the most active. In March, more than 22 500 irregular border crossings were detected at EU’s external borders*, 60% more than a year ago. More than 2 400 standing corps officers and Frontex staff are taking part in operational activities protecting EU’s external ...
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2015-03-24
In January and February 2015, the Western Balkan route registered more than 26 600 illegal border crossings, a tenfold increase compared to the same period of last year. Such high numbers were mainly caused by the unprecedented numbers of Kosovo* nationals crossing the Serbian-Hungarian border illegally. However, this migratory flow also included other nationalities, primarily Afghans and Syrians travelling from Turkey via Greece and Bulgaria.As a consequence of increased border control ...
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2016-02-22
The number of migrants arriving in Greece in January fell to 68 000, down nearly 40% in comparison with December 2015, due in large part to poor weather conditions around the Aegean islands.The rough seas also led to a significant increase in fatalities in the waters between Turkey and Greece.Despite the drop in migrant arrivals from the previous month, the figure for January 2016 was 38 times higher than the number recorded in January 2015. Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis continued to account for ...
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2016-07-01
In the first quarter of 2016, the number of illegal border-crossings by migrants travelling from Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria dropped 84% from the previous three months to 215 000. The fall became more pronounced in February and March, when coordinated restriction measures were introduced at regional level and, ultimately, the transit corridor was closed. After the closure in March, the number of detections dropped to the level close to that of the same month in 2015 and helped reduce the ...
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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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2022-01-11
According to preliminary figures collected by Frontex, the total number of illegal border-crossings in 2021 was just short of 200 000, the highest number since 2017. This is an increase of 36% when compared with 2019 and an increase of 57% compared with 2020 when we could observe a strong impact of COVID-19 restrictions. This suggests that factors other than the lifting of restrictions on global mobility are the cause of increased migratory pressure. One such factor defining 2021 was ...
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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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2017-01-06
The total number of migrants reaching Europe by two main sea routes in 2016 fell by nearly two-thirds to 364 000 in comparison with 2015. Last year saw a significant drop in arrivals on the Greek islands, while Italy experienced a record number of migrants. According to preliminary estimates, last year the number of migrants detected on Greece’s islands in the eastern Aegean and its mainland dropped by 79% to 182 500. This was in large part due to the EU/Turkey statement, which came into effect ...
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2020-08-18
In the first seven months of this year, the number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders fell by 15% from a year ago to 47 250*. After reaching record lows in April due to restrictions related to COVID-19, the number of irregular migrants detected at Europe’s external borders had been rising over the last three months. In July, the number of illegal border crossings rose by nearly a third from the previous month to 8650. The Central and Western Mediterranean regions saw twice ...
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