The European Union (EU) has adopted a regulation aimed at reinforcing the control of the external maritime borders and prevent tragedies such as the one occurred off the coast of the Italian island of Lampedusa.

In recent years, the Member States of the EU have faced a growing number of irregular migrants traveling in boats, overloaded and unfit to sail through the Mediterranean Sea. To limit the growing number of fatalities, with hundreds of lives that...

Call for papers for the EUBORDERREGIONS Conference “boundaries, regions: interactions and experiences at the external borders of the EU”, which will take place on 27 and 28 November 2014 in Tartu (Estonia). The Conference is...

During the year 2013 the migratory pressure at the external borders of the EU has increased notorious way, mainly because of the conflict of instability in Egypt, Libya and Syria, and to a lesser extent Tunisia. All indications are that during...

The entrance of irregular migrants in the countries of the European Union (EU) increased by 48% in 2013, according to data presented by the European Control Agency for external borders (Frontex) in the Parliament of Athens.