The Latest Breaking News from Frontex

Hundreds dying as route from Libya or Tunisia to Greece or Italy made in unseaworthy, overloaded boats

The European Union's border agency Frontex says that illegal immigration into the EU rose by ten percent in the first half of 2023 compared to a year ago, with Mediterranean routes accounting for most of the arrivals.

Editorial: Why was an effective search and rescue operation not mounted to save up to 750 people on board the Adriana, as it struggled off the Greek coast?

The European Union’s official watchdog says it has opened a probe into the role of the bloc’s Frontex border agency in the shipwreck off Greece last month that is feared to have killed hundreds of people in the Mediterranean Sea

Ombudsman to examine search and rescue role of Frontex after at least 500 people drowned in tragedy

On 15 June, the overcrowded fishing trawler Adriana sank on its illicit journey from Libya to Italy, drowning hundreds of men, women and children. In response, states have expressed shock and sadness, and have moved to prosecute smugglers associated with the journey.

The crossing through the Central Mediterranean to the EU is the most active route this year, border agency Frontex says.

Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with

Greece’s new minister for migration says he would consider it “unthinkable” for the European Union to pull out its border protection force from the country

An official says the European Union’s border agency has asked for “clarifications and information” from Greece’s coast guard on two alleged cases of migrants crossing by boat being illegally deported back to Turkey

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky are the key figures at a European Union summit underway in Brussels this Thursday, highlighting the importance of protecting the EU's eastern flank from Russian aggression and bolstering support for Tunisia to combat illegal migration across the Mediterranean.