The number of migrants arriving on European shores in 2016 fell by nearly two thirds to stand at 364,000 arrivals, down from 1 million in 2015, the former Frontex agency and new European coastguard and border guard agency announced on Friday 6 January.
This drop is mainly due to a considerable decrease in arrivals in Greece, thanks to the agreement between the EU and Turkey. However, this overall downward trend is not true of the situation in Italy and the central Mediterranean, where a...