Brussels, 19/02/2014 (Agence Europe) - The number of illegal migrants intercepted doubled over the third quarter of 2013 on the borders of the countries of the southern EU, using the resources deployed to monitor the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea, according to the latest report of the European borders agency, Frontex, published on Tuesday 18 February.
The data notified by the states reveal 42,628 migrants were detected between July and September 2013, twice as many as the same period in 2012...