International Frontex: Number of unauthorized border crossings down
In the first nine months of this year, 166,000 people attempted to enter the EU irregularly. This was 42 percent fewer than in the same period last year, according to the EU border protection agency Frontex in Warsaw.
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However, the number of attempted unauthorized entries via the EU's eastern land border, i.e. the route via Belarus to Poland and Lithuania, increased significantly. Around 13,200 such attempts were registered here (up 192 percent).
Warsaw wants to temporarily suspend the right to asylum
Against this backdrop, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on Saturday that he would temporarily suspend the right to asylum. The fight against illegal migration will also be discussed at the EU summit of heads of state and government of the EU member states in Brussels on Thursday.
In contrast, the number of irregular, unauthorized entries on the route via the Western Balkans fell particularly sharply by just under 17,000 (down 79 percent). According to the data, there was a similar trend on the route via the central Mediterranean, i.e. from Libya and Tunisia via Sicily and Malta. The figure here was a good 47,700 (down 64 percent).
On the West Africa route across the Atlantic - i.e. from Morocco, Senegal and Western Sahara to the Canary Islands - the number of attempted entries doubled year-on-year to over 30,600.
