🆕 Situation at 🇪🇺 external borders in 2022:
🔶 Around 330 000 irregular border crossings in 12 months
🔶 64% increase from the previous year
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613821462103597056
📈 2022 saw the highest number of irregular border crossings since 2016
Europe faced unprecedented challenges at their external borders after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which caused record numbers of refugees arriving in the European Union
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613821658846081026
🔶 The second highest increase took place on the Eastern Mediterranean route, with 42 800 irregular border crossings detected
🔷 Figures roughly doubled compared with 2022
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613822188259246081
🔷 145 600 crossings – almost half of all 2022 irregular entries – were reported on the Western Balkans route
🔶 This is the highest number of crossings reported on this route since 2015
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613821963171921920