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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11368
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha

Some 44,000 migrants take “Balkans route” in first quarter of 2015

Brussels, 28/07/2015 (Agence Europe) - In the first three months of this year, more than 44,000 illegal migrants were “detected” at the borders with the Western Balkans, with over 27,500 coming from the area that covers Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo, reveals a Frontex report on 23 July.

These migrants crossed either these Balkan countries or the border between these Balkan countries and their neighbouring EU...