15 results for "return 2014"
2015-04-17
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q4_2014.pdf (434.4 KB) In the fourth quarter of 2014 indicators of irregular migration and asylum exchanged un-der the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) changed only slightly compared the third quarter of 2014. Winter months tend to be marked by substantially lower migration pressure at the external borders, but in Q4 2014 detections of illegal border-crossings and illegal stay dropped less significantly and did not fall to the ...
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2019-09-30
Yesterday, the former Head of the Finnish Border Guard and first Frontex Executive Director, Lieutenant General Ilkka Laitinen, passed away. Ilkka Laitinen became the Executive Director of Frontex in 2005, when the agency was established, and left Warsaw to return to his duties in the Finnish Border Guard in 2014. “Together with Frontex staff who worked with Ilkka I am deeply saddened by his untimely death. He paved the way for Frontex to become the agency it is today. Everything achieved so ...
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2014-01-31
Ilkka Laitinen and Krum Garkov Warsaw, 31 January 2014 — Frontex and the European Agency for the Operational Management of Large-Scale IT Systems (eu-LISA) signed a Working Arrangement today at Frontex headquarters in Warsaw. Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen represented the Agency in a signing ceremony with Krum Garkov, the Executive Director of eu-LISA. The areas of cooperation covered by the document include training, such as development of e-learning tools, ICT-related projects and exchange ...
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2016-04-05
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/Annula_Risk_Analysis_2016.pdf (14.9 MB) In 2015, Member States reported more than 1 820 000 detections of illegal border-crossing along the external borders. This never-before-seen figure was more than six times the number of detections reported in 2014, which was itself an unprecedented year, with record monthly averages observed since April 2014. The year 2015 began with extremely high levels for the month of January (over 20 000 ...
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2017-02-15
In 2016, migration pressure at Europe’s external borders remained high with the detection of over half a million illegal border-crossings. Frontex estimates that this figure corresponds to about 382 000 migrants coming to Europe from the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Compared to the 1.8 million illegal border-crossings reported in 2015, 2016 saw a significant decrease, but this figure is still higher than any annual figure for arrivals between 2010 (104 060) and 2014 (282 933). Most migrants ...
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2016-01-20
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q3_2015.pdf (5.1 MB) Between the second and third quarter of 2015, the FRAN indicators of illegal border-crossings between BCPs, illegal stay, and asylum increased exponentially, reaching their highest ever recorded levels since data collection for the respective indicators began. On the other hand, Member States reported fewer detections of illegal border-crossing at BCPs and effective returns to third countries than in Q2 2015. ...
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2017-05-16
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/FRAN_Q4_2016.pdf (1.1 MB) In the fourth quarter of 2016, the number of detections of illegal border-crossing between BCPs at the EU’s external borders dropped to the lowest level since the closure of the Western Balkan route and implementation of the EU-Turkey statement, which curtailed the unhindered migratory flow towards the EU and Schengen area. Compared with the record levels of irregular migration reported one year before, the number ...
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2018-02-20
In 2017, the total number of illegal border-crossings into the EU dropped to its lowest in four years, especially due to a fall in detections on the Eastern Mediterranean and Western Balkan routes, Frontex analysts write in the Risk Analysis for 2018 report released today. The annual total of 204 700 marked a significant decrease compared to recent years, but not yet a return to the situation before 2014, when figures ranged between 72 000 and 141 000 detections.While the comparison on the ...
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2018-02-20
Files available for download Publications/Risk_Analysis/Risk_Analysis/Risk_Analysis_for_2018.pdf (28.5 MB) In 2017, Member States reported a further drop in the detections of illegal border-crossing along the EU’s external borders, with 204 719 detections recorded that year. This represents a 60 % decrease compared with the 511 047 detections of 2016 (and an 89 % decrease compared with the 1.8 million detections at the height of the migratory crisis in 2015).This decrease was in particular ...
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2018-07-05
The Crime Information Cell – “Pilot Project” Bridging internal and external security of EUToday, 5 July 2018, a Crime Information Cell has been activated on board EUNAVFOR Med operation Sophia Task Force operating in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Following the EU Council decision adopted 14 May, five specialised personnel from EU agencies Europol, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, and EUNAVFOR Med have been embarked on board of Flagship of EUNAVFOR Med operation Sophia, ...
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