{"id":664981,"date":"2025-12-31T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664981\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T15:58:13","slug":"migrants-died-trying-to-reach-spain-by-sea-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664981\/","title":{"rendered":"Migrants died trying to reach Spain by sea in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed);font-weight:900\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto _boldNode_9c3ev_1 m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\"><\/p>\n<p>Sharp decline in deaths amid increasingly dangerous routes<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The figure of 3,090 deaths recorded between January and mid-December represents a significant drop compared to the previous year. However, activists warn this does not indicate safer journeys; instead, they argue heightened border controls are forcing migrants onto even more perilous maritime paths.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed);font-weight:900\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto _boldNode_9c3ev_1 m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\"><\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic crossing to Canary Islands remains deadliest<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">The report identifies the Atlantic route from North Africa to Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands as the most lethal, accounting for 1,906 fatalities. This voyage can last up to 12 days. A growing number of deaths, 1,037, also occurred on the route from Algeria to the Balearic Islands, while a new dangerous passage from Guinea to the Canaries has emerged.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed);font-weight:900\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto _boldNode_9c3ev_1 m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\"><\/p>\n<p>Criticism of a global hardening of migration policies<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"--text-fz:var(--mantine-font-size-md);--text-lh:var(--mantine-line-height-md);--text-color:var(--mantine-color-dimmed)\" class=\"mantine-focus-auto detailText m_b6d8b162 mantine-Text-root\" data-variant=\"text\" data-size=\"md\" color=\"dimmed\">Caminando Fronteras criticized what it described as a worldwide toughening of migration policies in 2025, singling out measures by the US administration. The report claims such policies have created a model of externalizing deportations and detentions to third countries, a practice mirrored by UK and Italian initiatives, leading to a &#8220;transnational system&#8221; managed through &#8220;institutional violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharp decline in deaths amid increasingly dangerous routes The figure of 3,090 deaths recorded between January and mid-December&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[18183,2000,299,5805,2963,15003,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-664981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-deaths","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-migrants","12":"tag-report","13":"tag-sea","14":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115815009635057491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664981","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=664981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}