{"id":329875,"date":"2024-01-26T13:20:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T12:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/01\/26\/frontex-380-mila-ingressi-ue-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T16:57:24","slug":"frontex-recorded-380000-irregular-entries-into-the-eu-in-2023-the-highest-since-the-2016-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/01\/26\/frontex-recorded-380000-irregular-entries-into-the-eu-in-2023-the-highest-since-the-2016-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontex recorded 380,000 irregular entries into the EU in 2023. The highest since the 2016 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – In 2023 alone, 380,000 migrants crossed the EU’s external borders, the highest figure since the 2016 crisis. According to preliminary calculations by the EU Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex<\/a>), arrivals at the EU’s gates increased by 17 percent from 2022<\/strong>, confirming a steady upward trend over the past three years.<\/p>\n

There were 157,479 arrivals from the central Mediterranean<\/strong>, the most active migration route to the EU, with\u00a0two out of five irregular crossings (41 percent of the total). In second place is the Western Balkans route, at 26 percent of the total <\/strong>but were 31 percent less than the previous year. In third place is the Eastern Mediterranean, or 16 percent of\u00a0total arrivals. Although limited in numbers to the main routes, the sharpest surge was on the West Africa to the Canary Islands route<\/strong>: a 161 percent increase from 2022.<\/p>\n

The most represented nationality\u00a0is again Syria: in 2023, over 100,000 Syrian nationals crossed\u00a0irregularly,\u00a0 <\/strong>followed by Guineans and Afghans. These three accounted for more than a third of all detections. Frontex data show that\u00a0women accounted for 10 percent of\u00a0all irregular crossings last year, and children accounted for another 10 percent.<\/p>\n

Frontex currently has 2,500 EU border guard officers and other personnel\u00a0in its joint operations at European borders. “The numbers presented today show the evolving challenges we face in managing the EU’s external borders,” said Frontex Executive Director Hans Leijtens<\/strong>. “We remain committed to ensuring the security and integrity of the EU’s borders. It is equally crucial to address the humanitarian aspects of migration. These figures represent not just statistics but real people.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A steady upward trend over the past three years, driven by the central Mediterranean route, which alone counted for 41 percent of the total. The sharpest surge since 2022 on the western route to the Canary Islands; drop in crossings from the Balkans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7527,"featured_media":329807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[25937,25753,25754],"class_list":["post-329875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-frontex-en-2","tag-migrants-en-2","tag-migration-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330033,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329875\/revisions\/330033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}