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Frontex: Irregular border crossings down 40% in Q1 2026

2026-04-17

Poor weather across the main migratory routes into the European Union was among the key factors behind a continued sharp drop in irregular border crossings. In the first three months of 2026, detections fell by 39% compared with the same period last year, with just over 21 400 crossings recorded, according to preliminary data collected by Frontex.

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Frontex opens its Operations Exhibition to mark a new chapter in transparency

Frontex opens its Operations Exhibition to mark a new chapter in transparency

Frontex officially opened its Operations Exhibition at the headquarters in Warsaw, where visitors can try the same document readers and fingerprint scanners used by border guards at Europe's borders, walk past scale models of the vessels and aircraft used in Frontex operations or put on VR goggles for an immersive experience of field scenarios.

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