Irregular crossings into the European Union kept falling through the summer. Frontex, the EU's border agency, says it recorded just over 91,000 irregular crossings of the EU's external borders from January to September 2026, almost a third fewer than in the same nine months of last year.

A Frontex patrol boat of the Romanian border police at the port of Crotone, Italy, in November 2024. Photo: Francesco Placco / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0), cropped and resized.