Frontex records reduction in migrant flows to Greek islands in October

In October, the number of detections of illegal border crossings on Europe's main migratory routes fell 17 percent from the previous month to around 16,800 due to a drop in arrivals on the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean. The total on all European migratory routes for the first 10 months of 2019 was 16 percent lower at 107,900, a Frontex report said on Wednesday.
Even though the number of irregular migrants taking the Eastern Mediterranean route in October fell 18 percent from September - to nearly 10,800 - it still accounted for two-thirds of all detections of illegal border crossings into the European Union.
Despite the slowdown last month, in large part due to worsening weather conditions, the total number of detections in this region in the first 10 months of this year was 31 percent higher than a year ago, at nearly 63,000.
In 2019 on the Eastern...