ATHENS: Greece’s Customs statics showed that over 93,000 migrants to EU countries uses the Greece sea route. Mostly masses use 4 key lands, sea rout to Europe and Greece is one of them. The trafficker’s gang uses a month’s long sea routs and these poorest migrants has t suffer a lot during their illegal journey said, Frontex, the EU agency that helps member nations detect migrants.
wa Moncure, spokeswoman for the Warsaw-based agency, compares efforts to quell immigration on any particular route to “squeezing a balloon.””You tighten a law in one country, another route swells up elsewhere,” she says.
Here are the main four smuggling routes listed in order of popularity in 2014 as recorded by Frontex. Each lists the total number of migrants detected in destination EU countries last year, the change from 2013, and the top three nationalities of migrants.
Numbers are soaring because of Turkey’s hosting of more than 1 million refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; its policy of making air travel from Africa easy; and, above all, its intimate proximity to the eastern islands of Greece.
Alongside the Greek influx, the Balkans themselves generate heavy illegal immigration to the EU, particularly from Kosovo.More than 43,000 were recorded arriving in Hungary in 2014 using this route, double the previous year. Kosovars, Afghans and Syrians led the way.
While land border controls have been toughened, it’s proved harder to stop migrants from completing trips to Greek islands just minutes from the Turkish coast using smuggler-supplied rigid inflatable boats. More than 50,000 used this route last year, double the 2013 figure, led by Syrians, Afghans and Somalis.
This is the fastest-growing smuggling route, and increasingly the seamless second half of the Eastern Mediterranean route from Turkey.Once reaching Greece, asylum-seekers cannot easily reach other EU states except through the former Yugoslav nations of Macedonia and Serbia. Neighboring Hungary has become the preferred EU opening for travel by road or rail to immigrant favorites Germany and France. Many walk the entire Macedonian section because locals refuse to drive the migrants, citing harsh anti-smuggling laws.
