Frontex Risk Analysis Network Quarterly Report Jan-March 2018

FRAN Quarterly reports are prepared by the Frontex Risk Analysis Unit and provide a regular overview of irregular migration at the EU external borders, based on the irregular-migration data exchanged among Member State border-control authorities within the cooperative framework of the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) and its subsidiary, the European Union Document-Fraud Risk Analysis Network (EDF-RAN). This FRAN Quarterly is a comparative analysis of FRAN data collected between January and March 2018 and exchanged between 31 Member State border-control authorities within the framework of the Frontex Risk Analysis Network. This report presents the results of statistical analysis of quarterly changes of eight irregular-migration indicators and one asylum indicator. Analytical reports exchanged by Member States were also used for interpretative purposes and to provide qualitative information, as were other available sources of information, such as Frontex Joint Operations.