Frontex has released information from its 2010 First Quarter report by the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN). A copy of the report itself has apparently not been released. According to the summary provided, there have been significant reductions in irregular migration:
- “[D]etections of irregular immigrants at [all EU] sea borders … were less than one-tenth of the peak level (for the third quarter of 2008) when roughly 33,600 detections were reported.”
- “[D]etections at the Spanish and Italian sea borders became negligible…”
- “[D]etections at the dominant Eastern Aegean Sea border between Greece and Turkey also fell by more than 60% to just under 2,300.”
- “Detections at the Greek-Turkish land border were for the first time greater than those at the countries’ sea border.”
- There were “only 150 detections of illegal border-crossing [in the Central Mediterranean], compared to 5,200 detections in the first quarter of 2009…”
- There were “only 500 irregular immigrants detected [in the Western Mediterranean] (almost 72% down on the fourth quarter of 2009 …).”
- There were “only five detections over the first three months of 2010 [on the West African/Canary Island route], in contrast to 31,700 detections in 2006…”
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MIGRANTS AT SEA 