European Mitigation Efforts
European Response
Since 2015, over 1,342,000 migrants and asylum seekers have arrived by sea, and over 2,237,000 have lodged asylum applications to European countries.
The European Commission announced a Partnership Framework to deepen cooperation with countries of origin, transit, and destination, beginning with readmission to home countries of economic migrants and rejected asylum seekers from Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, and Ethiopia.
Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Frontline States
Balkans
Migrant flows along the Balkans route are vastly reduced from 2015.
Authorities continue to detect over a thousand irregular migrants – mostly Afghans, Pakistanis, and Iraqis – monthly. Nearly 13,000 migrants and asylum seekers are being accommodated, mostly in Bulgaria and Serbia, but others, including a hundred people in open “transit zones” at the Serbia-Hungary border, lack formal shelter.
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