{"id":424130,"date":"2025-04-11T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/04\/11\/frontiere-ue-calo-irregolari-immigrazione\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T16:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:23:15","slug":"eu-q1-irregular-border-crossings-drop-by-one-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/04\/11\/eu-q1-irregular-border-crossings-drop-by-one-third\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Q1 irregular border crossings drop by one-third"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – After the general 40 percent\u00a0drop<\/a>\u00a0in irregular arrivals in the Union<\/strong> in the first eleven months of 2024, irregular border crossings<\/strong> continue to decline. Preliminary data released by\u00a0Frontex<\/strong>, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency,\u00a0show<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0arrivals in the first quarter of 2025<\/strong> fell by 31 percent (33 thousand)<\/strong>, with the Western Balkan route experiencing the most significant decline (minus 64 percent).<\/p>\n

In March alone, the number of arrivals\u00a0from the Central Mediterranean<\/strong> (about 8500) decreased by three-quarters compared to the previous year. The EU agency explains that poor weather conditions\u00a0were among the factors behind this decline.<\/p>\n

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Fonte: Frontex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Eastern Mediterranean<\/strong> and West Africa <\/strong>were\u00a0the busiest routes<\/strong> for irregular migration this year, with 9630 and 9200 arrivals between January and March. On the Channel\u200b <\/strong>route, the number of migrants attempting to reach the UK decreased by 4 percent from last year, with slightly more than 11200\u00a0detections. According to Frontex, the main nationalities<\/strong> of irregular migrants this year have been Afghans, Malians, and Bengalis.<\/p>\n

“For border protection to work, we need to\u00a0strengthen our cooperation with third countries<\/strong>. Preventing dangerous travel means saving lives. That is precisely the goal of our agreements with third countries. And they are having an effect,” European Commissioner for Internal\u00a0Affairs Magnus Brunner<\/strong>\u00a0said on\u00a0X. There are, in fact, still many who lose their lives trying to reach the EU.\u00a0As the World Organization for Migration reports, 385<\/strong> migrants died<\/strong> in the Mediterranean between January and March 2025. In all of 2024, there were more than 11,000 deaths.<\/p>\n

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For border protection to work, we need to strengthen our cooperation with third countries. Preventing dangerous journeys means saving lives.<\/p>\n

That is exactly what our agreements with third countries aim to achieve. And they are having an effect. In the first quarter of 2025, the\u2026 commentato<\/a><\/p>\n

– Magnus Brunner (@magnusbrunner) https:\/\/t.co\/VK7sC0gWWW<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Frontex notes an overall decrease in arrivals between January and March (-31 percent), especially from the Balkan and central Mediterranean routes. Internal Affairs Commissioner Brunner: “Agreements with third countries are having an effect.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":235328,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","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"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712],"tags":[29287,29360,25937,26205,29001],"class_list":["post-424130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-frontiere-and","tag-frontiere-ue-en","tag-frontex-en-2","tag-immigration-en-2","tag-crossings-irregular-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424130","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\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424138,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424130\/revisions\/424138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}