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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 […]

Published by Statista Research Department, Oct 17, 2023 In 2021 there were over 200,000 illegal border crossing detecting on the borders of the European Union, the most crossings recorded since 2017 when there were over 204,000. Illegal border crossings peaked in 2015 at the height of the European migrant crisis, when over 1.8 million illegal border crossing were […]

Alice Donald and Joelle Grogan explain the UK-Rwanda Treaty and the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill which aim to put into effect the government’s policy to remove asylum seekers to Rwanda. They explain what both intend to achieve, their potential impact and why they are controversial. For an explanation of the UK Supreme […]