Overview
- Authorities logged about 178,000 registered irregular crossings last year, down a quarter from 2024 and less than half the 2023 level.
- The central Mediterranean stayed the main corridor with 66,328 detections, a figure roughly unchanged from the prior year.
- Frontex cited steep declines on several routes, including West Africa down 63%, the West Balkans down 42%, and detections along the Belarus border down 37%.
- Flows shifted elsewhere, with crossings from eastern Libya to Crete more than tripling and the western Mediterranean route rising about 14%.
- Frontex flagged ongoing risks as the EU prepares its Migration and Asylum Pact for full implementation in June 2026 to expand coordinated operations and faster border procedures.