European coastguard and border guard agency Frontex published new figures on Thursday 13 July on migration numbers, showing that more than 30,700 illegal migrant arrivals were detected in June on the four main routes into the EU.
The total number of detected migrants in the first six months of 2017 is 68% lower than during the same period of 2016, falling to around 116,000 but the number of illegal migrants arriving in Italy and Spain is higher than last year.
For the central Mediterranean,...