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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10831

20 April 2013
Contents Publication in full By article 12 / 37
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Frontex says number of illegal immigrants halved in first half of 2012

Brussels, 19/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Frontex, the European Union's border agency, announced on Thursday 18 April 2013 that the number of illegal aliens entering the European Union almost halved in 2012 to 72,430, down 49% on the 141,060 illegal immigrants detected in 2011.

The drop is due to tighter border controls between Greece and Turkey, which has, for a long time, been the weakest link in the EU's borders. Greece deployed an additional 1,800 border guards in August 2012 to strengthen...

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SECTORAL POLICIES
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