Source: International Organization for Migration
Country: Afghanistan, Algeria, Austria, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Croatia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Nigeria, Norway, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, Serbia, Slovenia, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, World
Highlights
- Flow Monitoring: As of 25 January 2016 IOM field staff in Greece, fYROM, Croatia, and Slovenia had amassed interviews with over 3,180 migrants and asylum seekers, of which 482 people were interviewed over the week from 18-25 January. Individuals of Syrian, Afghan, Iraqi, Iranian and Pakistani nationalities comprised 94% of all respondents.
- See sections on Greece and Italy for an update on the EU’s Relocations Plan.
- For numbers of fatalities and missing persons in the Mediterranean and Aegan seas, go to page 35.
- See the Northern Route section for developments in the news about the route to Finland and Norway from Russia.
- Read the Advanced Notifications from Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, and Hungary for highlights from the latest report by FRONTEX, the EU’s external border management agency.
- See the sections for Greece, fYROM, Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia for maps showing the transport and logistics used between entry, transit, and exit points.
- On 06 January 2016 Germany’s Ministry of Interior announced that it had begun using a new system to count arrivals in 2015, rather than the asylum application system. The new numbers indicate that there may have been a larger overall number of arrivals to Europe in 2015 than has to date been detected in countries of transit. For a fuller explanation of this difference, please see page 48.
