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Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)With aircraft from the air, ferry from sea or buses on land roads... more than 15,000 Albanian citizens standing irregularly in European Union countries over the past year. Although declining in relation to previous years, data from the European Institute of Statistics shows that Albanians continue to play [...]
With aircraft from the air, ferry from sea or buses on land roads... more than 15,000 Albanian citizens standing irregularly in European Union countries over the past year.
Although declining in proportion to previous years, data from the European Institute of Statistics shows that Albanians continue to play the unsuccessful “card of asylum”. Half of the total have been rejected in the neighbouring state of Albania, Greece and Italy, while the rest spread to Lithuania, Hungary and Germany.
It is impossible to take asylum for economic reasons or for physical uncertainty. We are safe and therefore not given asylum”, says A2 CNN, Nirvana Deliu, a European policy researcher.
Data from Eurostat also shows that over 14,000 other Albanians were refused entry into European Union countries last year. The list is led by citizens from Moldova, Turkey, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia or Kosovo.
“appear to understand reasons. It is a lack of information on the part of citizens about the way Schengen functions or becomes knowingly”, Deliu says.
Data from Eurostat shows that Albanians rank at <x0top 10 of the world's” for the highest number of migrants standing irregularly in one of the “union countries”. In places of “union”, it is believed that nearly 30,000 Albanians live irregularly. The figure has remained almost unchanged in the last eight years.
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What, though, threatens Albania by the increasing number of citizens trying to stay in European countries in an irregular way? The “changes precisely to what was discussed in 2017, when the Netherlands demanded a visa suspension with Albania”, Deliu says.
In 2024, 123 thousand and 655 citizens of third countries were refused to enter EU territory on one of its external borders, a slight 0.3 percent increase compared to 2023.
What, though, threatens Albania by the increasing number of citizens trying to stay in European countries in an irregular way? The “changes precisely to what was discussed in 2017, when the Netherlands demanded a visa suspension with Albania”, Deliu says.
In 2024, 123 thousand and 655 citizens of third countries were refused to enter EU territory on one of its external borders, a slight 0.3 percent increase compared to 2023. /A2 CNN/Periscopi/
