border authorities

• Syria
• Afghanistan
• Turkey

Turkish authorities have detained 415 migrants during a series of raids in the country's largest city, Istanbul. In another operation in the east of the country, another 86 migrants have been intercepted.

• Belarus
• Lithuania

A growing number of African and Middle Eastern migrants have been illegally entering Lithuania from Belarus. The country says it is finding it hard to cope. Alexandra von Nahmen reports from the Lithuanian border.

• Morocco
• Spain

A group of 119 migrants scaled a fence and crossed the border into the Spanish enclave of Melilla from neighboring Morocco on Monday. They were taken to the city's migrant reception center.

• Cyprus

Authorities at a British military base on Cyprus have hired additional officers and procured detection equipment to better thwart irregular immigration. The move comes as more migrants have continued to arrive from the Turkish-administered northern part of the island.

• United Kingdom

212 migrants were picked up by the UK Border Force on Sunday. An additional 238 migrants were reportedly prevented by French authorities from completing their crossing. The latest figures come as the UK prepares to debate a new nationality and border bill in parliament.

• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Croatia

Croatian border authorities are systemically pushing back potential asylum seekers, reports from several European media outlets have confirmed. Six pushbacks to Bosnia were captured on video. Among those forced across the border were a pregnant woman, disabled persons and small children.

• Italy
• Slovenia

Italian interior minister Luciana Lamorgese and her Slovenian counterpart Aleš Hojs on Friday decided to resume joint police patrols within the next month along the Slovenian-Italian border to curb migration flows to Western Europe along the Balkan route.

• Ceuta & Melilla
• Spain
• Morocco

Thousands of migrants, many of them minors, have swum or sailed across the EU's land border with Africa. Some believe Morocco deliberately hobbled its border control measures.

• Slovenia
• Italy

Authorities in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy along the border with Slovenia report that from January 1 to May 10, the territory had seen a 20% increase in migrants entering compared with the same period of 2020.

• Spain
• Greece
• Croatia

In an article published on Wednesday, the British newspaper revealed that at least 40,000 people seeking asylum in the European Union have been pushed back illegally. These operations have led to the deaths of more than 2,000 people.

• Italy

UNICEF and Save the Children said that in the four months that their joint border program has been active, they have provided assistance to more than 130 families and 570 unaccompanied minors in Ventimiglia and Lampedusa.

• Spain
• Morocco
• Greece

The number of undocumented migrants arriving in Europe, especially via the eastern Mediterranean Sea route, has decreased, according to the EU border agency. At the same time, more are making the crossing from North Africa.