ITALY MIGRATION

Frontex reports highest number of illegal arrivals to the EU via the Central Mediterranean since 2017

epa10795633 Migrants disembark from a patrol boat at a commercial port of Lampedusa (Agrigento), southern Italy, 10 August 2023 (issued 11 August 2023), as some 340 migrants were rescued and taken to the Sicilian island. The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) said on 11 August that the number of illegal arrivals to the EU via the Central Mediterranean migrant route between North Africa and Italy, which 'remains the main migratory route into the EU', rose by 115 percent to 89,000 in the first seven months of 2023, adding that it is the highest total on this route for this period since 2017. EPA/ELIO DESIDERIO

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