The Latest Breaking News from Frontex

Editorial: As Sweden takes over the EU presidency, the prospects of a coherent approach are minimal, thanks to the influence of the radical right

The number of attempts by migrants to enter the European Union without authorization reached around 330,000 last year, the highest number since 2016, the EU’s border and coast guard agency said Friday. Almost half of the 2022 attempts were made overland through the Western Balkans region, EU agency Frontex said,…

The European Union's border and coast guard agency says that the number of attempts by migrants to enter Europe without authorization reached around 330,000 last year

Human Rights Watch said on Monday that the EU's border agency Frontex is facilitating the forced return of sea migrants to Libya rather than their rescue by NGOs or other vessels that would take them to Europe.

Ministers from Britain, Belgium, France, Germany and the Netherlands on Thursday agreed plans to step up co-operation to tackle irregular immigration across Europe and try to stop people smugglers working in the English Channel.

Countries embracing Ukrainians are simultaneously persecuting equally desperate refugees from elsewhere

A summit of European Union and Western Balkan leaders yielded few concrete steps on the region's future in the wealthy EU but offered it hope for some progress next week, amid a better atmosphere in talks than previously.

NGO alleges ‘crimes against humanity’ committed with deal approved by European Council

The European Union’s border agency says that the number of illegal entries by migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year

The number of detected irregular border crossings at the external borders of the European Union rose more than 70% in the January-October period, according to preliminary calculations published Monday by Frontex.

Lying a few kilometres off the Turkish coast, a series of Greek islands remain on the frontline of increasingly militarised attempts to limit the arrival of migrants and asylum seekers to the European Union. The often unseen and largely ignored treatment of those seeking shelter, whether pushed back to Turkey…