EU’s new priority: Turkey-Bulgaria border
Thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, Europe forgetting phrases such as “irregular migration”, “illegal entry” and “refugee crisis” in 2020 and 2021, the administrators of the pandemic and the officials of the Ukraine War reload “mass migration” in 2022.
So much so that 330 thousand people entered the European Union illegally in 2022. Which is the biggest number since 2016.
Migration will become official of the European Union after a long break. EU leaders, who will meet in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, on February 9-10, will discuss migration on the main agenda.
The EU needs to look to the 2022 report of Frontex, the EU’s border protection agency, to better understand why migration is causing it to spread again.
According to the report, immigrants enter Europe from 6 places: West Africa, Western Mediterranean (Spain-Morocco), Central Mediterranean (Italy-Libya), Aegean (Turkey-Greece), Western Balkans and Eastern border (Poland).
71 thousand of those who entered Europe from these points opened a 7th destination that entered England illegally.
Here are the notes from Frontex’s report:
The largest entries in 2022 were from the Balkans and the Aegean.
45 percent of the entries were from the Balkans.
Syrians, Afghans and Tunisians fleeing to the EU in 2022 and entering the state in three countries…
Syrians, Afghans, Turks and Tunisians enter the EU mostly from the Western Balkan route, and Egyptians, Bangladeshis, Tunisians and Syrians from the Central Mediterranean.
There is also a story of people coming to the EU from countries such as Pakistan, India, Burundi, Cuba and Nigeria.
50 different immigrants wanted to enter the UK.
The Turkey-Bulgaria border is at the forefront of the external borders of the European Union. The EU Commission states that it is open to other member states to take part in the deadlines for this border.
Austrian Prime Minister Karl Nehammer was demanding that the EU allocate 2 billion euros for the protection of the Turkey-Bulgaria border. It was vetoing the applications of Austria, Bulgaria and Romania to enter the Schengen area.
Under the title of external borders, the EU also provides equipment and training support for border monitoring at sea and on land to Tunisia, Libya and Egypt in the Mediterranean, Frontex border guards are in charge of Serbia, Albania, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Western Balkans, all of the immigrants It wants to start informative campaigns, especially through social media, to register it at the borders and to deter immigrants before they leave the EU.