Detections of irregular migrants entering the European Union fell in 2024 to the lowest level recorded since 2021 due to a crackdown on traffickers, the bloc's border agency said on Tuesday. Irregular entries detected via the Central Mediterranean fell by 59 percent from the 2023 level due to "fewer departures from Tunisia and Libya",

Irregular crossings into the European Union in 2024 dropped to their lowest level since 2021, the EU border agency Frontex reported Tuesday.

Warsaw-based Frontex, which regularly publishes statistics on irregular entries into the EU, said last year’s preliminary data revealed ‘a significant 38-percent drop’ in crossings

The European Union's border agency Frontex says that irregular migration into the European Union fell sharply in 2024.

The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) is preparing to open a permanent base in Estonia and increase its presence along the EU's eastern border to combat migration attacks.

The European Parliament on Tuesday ratified an agreement allowing the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) to deploy personnel across all of Serbia’s territory, including borders with non-EU countries,

Their journeys take them through pine forests and snow-covered mountains, along railway tracks and roads that lead to a hoped-for better life in the promised lands of Western Europe.

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However, the number of people crossing from the EU's borders with Belarus and Russia jumped 192% to 17,000, Frontex said. Significant numbers of migrants or asylum-seekers also came from Syria ...

Preliminary data from Frontex indicate a sharp 38% decrease in irregular border crossings into the EU in 2024, bringing figures to their lowest level since 2021, when migration was still influenced by the COVID pandemic.

Despite an overall drop in irregular migration, the number of people crossing the border in Belaurs and Russia jumped sharply.View on euronews

About 17,000 unauthorised migrants crossed eastern land borders in total, according to border protection agency Frontex