EU border agency Frontex said Tuesday
that illegal border crossings via the Central Mediterranean
route from North Africa to Italy dropped by 59% in 2024 to
67,000 due to fewer departures from Tunisia and Libya.
The agency said this fall and a 78% drop in detections on the
Western Balkan route helped take the overall number of irregular
border crossings into the EU down by 38% to 239,000 last year,
the lowest level since 2021, when migration was still affected
by the COVID pandemic.
Frontex also said, however, that the Central Mediterranean route
still had the second highest amount of crossings among all
routes after the Eastern Mediterranean.
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