Irregular migrant crossings into Europe fall 30% in first quarter of 2025

Significantly fewer people crossed the EU's external borders irregularly in the first three months of 2025 compared to the previous year, according to data from Frontex, the EU's border and coast guard agency.

Fewer people cross the EU's external borders irregularly, but according to organizations, the reason is deaths and detentions.

The arrival of irregular immigration across European borders has been reduced by 30% according to data presented in a report by the EU Border Agency, FRONTEX. A figure that would reflect the reduction of illegal immigration by 33,500 people in this first quarter of 2025, compared to the same period of the previous year. The decrease in the number of arrivals occurs as the block has increasingly reached agreements with countries outside Europe, s…

Irregular crossings into Slovenia plunge

Irregular migrations into the EU have been declining since last year and Slovenia is no exception to the trend. In the first three months of the year the Slovenian police handled 3,876 irregular border crossings, down 60% on a year ago, the latest police statistics show. The decline is even more pronounced than in the EU as a whole, where irregular crossings declined by 30%, according to data by Frontex, the EU's borders agency. The trend appear…

In all, more than 33,000 people illegally crossed the block's borders

Sharp drop in immigration to Europe The decline is visible across all routes for migration into the EU, but it varies from place to place, says Frontex, the EU's border agency, according to The Guardian. The decline is greatest on the Western Balkans route, which crosses Albania and North Macedonia, among others, by 64 percent, while the decline across the English Channel is only 4 percent. The decline continues a trend that was already visible…