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In January, Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis featured prominently at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Among the various topics, he was asked to comment on was migration. “Greece has probably managed the migration problem better than most other European countries,” he said confidently in an interview with CNN’s Richard Quest on the sidelines of […]

INVESTIGATIONAn investigation carried out by Le Monde, Lighthouse Reports and seven international media outlets found that migrants are being arrested by the hundreds and deported to desert areas in Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania. Human rights are being violated with the backing of the European Union’s resources. READMORE

According to data published on Wednesday, March 13th, by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), the number of attempts of illegal crossing of the external borders of the European Union in the first two months of 2024 amounted to approximately 31,200, which was at a level similar to that of the previous year.This text comes from MILMAG Military […]

Eight years after the image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi lying facedown on a beach in Turkey shocked the world, pictures of asylum seekers’ lifeless bodies washed up on the coast of Italy’s Calabria region in February once again stirred global outrage. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen responded to the tragic shipwreck just metres away from […]

In the first four months of 2024, there were significantly fewer people illegally crossing the European Union (EU) than during the same time in 2023. The number of these irregular crossings decreased by 23%, according to Frontex, the EU’s border agency. READMORE

Total irregular arrivals to the EU have dropped from 1.04 million in 2015 to 0.28 million in 2023.  The breakdown per migratory route in 2024 is as follows: Eastern route: 17 315 arrivals Central route: 16 068 arrivals Western routes: 19 887 arrivals READMORE

In 2015, more than 1.3 million people applied for asylum in the European Union, twice as many as during the height of the 1992 Balkan crisis (672,000 applications). According to FRONTEX, also known as the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, most applicants reached Europe by illegally crossing EU borders. In order to stop this […]

SZEGED, Hungary (AP) — Interior ministers from six European Union countries on Monday said their nations had agreed to step up efforts to protect the bloc from illegal immigration and target groups of human smugglers that operate on its borders. The ministers from the V4 group of Central European nations — including the Czech Republic, […]

Armed police officers wave cars off the motorway going from Poland to Germany. They’re searching for people-smugglers and their desperate cargo. This is the German government’s latest bid to show it is getting a grip on rising levels of irregular migration. But, as we found in a rural border district, there’s little sense of control. […]

CNN —  As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for aid went unheeded for nearly a week before they finally […]