Frontex News
Over 73,300 migrants have landed in Italy since January, a 14 percent increase from the same period last year.
Some 4,000 migrants have been rescued from boats in the Strait of Sicily between Tunisia and Italy in the past two days, Italy`s coastguard said.
The EU was set to unveil on Tuesday controversial proposals for a new border and coastguard agency in response to Europe`s migration crisis, with powers to intervene even when the host country does not consent.
EU border agency Frontex said on Tuesday that 710,000 migrants entered the European Union in the first nine months of this year.
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