EU Illegal Border Crossings Drop 38% as Meloni’s Policies Reshape Migration Routes
Regional cooperation and Italy’s strict measures are key factors in the decline, but new routes are emerging across Europe.
Regional cooperation and Italy’s strict measures are key factors in the decline, but new routes are emerging across Europe.
Videos with happy migrants and promises of safe passage hide a lucrative but ruthless trafficking business.
The Central Mediterranean route accounts for half of the illegal border crossings detected in 2023.
Illegal arrivals have spiralled out of control despite promises from PM Meloni to decrease numbers.
Migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea are fast approaching rates not seen since 2017.
Authorities say that increasingly, crews of Tunisian fishing boats are leaving behind the profession and are dedicating themselves to “the more lucrative activity of pirates,” plundering small iron boats that ferry migrants from Tunisia to Sicily.
Pictures from the day’s events suggest the vast majority of the illegal migrants who managed to reach Italian soil were military-aged men.
In January, Italy’s so-called ‘technocratic government,’ led by Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, oversaw the arrival of more than 3,000 illegal migrants, an increase of nearly threefold compared to figures recorded last January.