The European Union's border agency says the number of unauthorised border crossings into Europe has hit a five-year low, although migrant entries into Spain via the Mediterranean continue to climb.
Frontex said people crossed the EU's external borders without authorisation around 150,000 times last year, a 25% drop compared with 2017 and far below the peak of over a million in 2015.
The border and coast guard agency said the drop is due to a massive decrease in the number of people entering Italy, mostly after setting out from Libya and Algeria.
Data from the EU's border agency Frontex shows the number of unauthorised crossings into Europe has hit a five-year low, although entries into Spain via the Mediterranean continue to climb
A migrant wearing a t-shirt reading 'In Spain I Trust' waits to disembark from the Aquarius rescue ship. Spain received the most unauthorised border crossings of all the EU member countries in 2018
Just over 23,000 unauthorised crossings were noted on that route this year, an 80% drop since last year and the fewest since 2012.
Italy's anti-immigration populist government has taken measures to prevent rescued boats docking on its shores since it came to power in March of 2018.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini has previously said Italy has done 'more than anyone else' to take in sea borne migrants and that it is now 'someone else's turn.'
Frontex said people crossed the EU's external borders without authorisation around 150,000 times last year, far below the peak of over a million in 2015
Frontex also said about 57,000 crossings were detected in Spain, double the figure for 2017 and the most of any country in the EU, making the route from Morocco to the Iberian Peninsula the most active in Europe.
Arrivals in Greece and Cyprus through the so-called Eastern Mediterranean route rose to 56,000 last year, with most of the refugees coming from Afghanistan, Syria or Iraq.
Italy's arrival figures have plummeted since Matteo Salvini and his party formed a coalition government in March and vowed to turn away rescue vessels
EU nations have been arguing over how to manage new arrivals since more than a million people entered in 2015.
They have failed to agree on a permanent mechanism to relocate those who reach Europe's shores.
Some 113,482 migrants crossed the Mediterranean to reach Europe last year, according to the UN refugee agency, which said 2,262 people lost their lives or went missing making the perilous journey.
Meanwhile rights activists today accused European countries on Friday of a new 'record of shame' for refusing to open ports to migrant children and families stranded at sea in the Mediterranean for two weeks.
Thirty-two migrants including a baby and several children were rescued off Malta by a Sea-Watch rescue boat on December 22 remain at sea after being denied entry to European ports.
'It's now been 14 days left alone at sea. A new record of shame,' the Mediterranea collective of aid groups and associations said on Twitter.
Mediterranea and Sea-Watch launched two boats on Friday to deliver supplies, including fresh water, to Sea-Watch 3, a Dutch-flagged vessel.
As the help party arrived, 'one of the migrants threw himself into the water in an attempt to swim to Malta', said an onboard freelance photographer, Federico Scoppa.
'After a few meters, he gave up because of the cold and the current, and was dragged back to the ship using a lifebuoy,' Scoppa told AFP.
A man who jumped from the Dutch-flagged Sea-Watch 3 rescue vessel swims by a buoy thrown by crew members on January 4, 2019 in the cold Mediterranean off Malta's coast, after he attempted to reach the shore by swimming
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