Irregular migrant entries into the European Union dropped by 18% in the first seven months of 2025, totaling 95,200, Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, has announced.<\/p>\n
While most routes saw decreases, pressure remained high across the Mediterranean Sea, especially along a new Libya-Crete corridor. The Central Mediterranean remained the busiest path, with nearly 36,700 crossings \u2013 a 9% increase over 2024.<\/p>\n
Notably, arrivals from Libya to Crete exceeded 10,000, over four times last year\u2019s total. The Eastern Mediterranean route fell by 16%, to 26,200.<\/p>\n
Western Balkan (-47%), Eastern land borders, which refers to refer to the eastern external borders of the EU (-45%), and West Africa (-46%) routes also declined.<\/p>\n
In contrast, Channel crossings to the UK surged 26%, reaching 41,800 attempts, due to favorable weather and new smuggling tactics like \u201csimultaneous departures.\u201d<\/p>\n
Libyan smuggling networks remain highly organized, exploiting instability.<\/p>\n
Algerian and Moroccan rings offer costly multi-stage routes to Spain.<\/p>\n
Despite falling numbers, the human toll is stark: 947 deaths in the Mediterranean so far this year, according to the International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Irregular migrant entries into the European Union dropped by 18% in the first seven months of 2025, totaling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,12072,6656,6657,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-332732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-foreign-affairs","13":"tag-libya","14":"tag-migration","15":"tag-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115003659742708463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}