Copin ng with a fundam mental rights emeergency – The situ uation of people crossing the Greeek border in an iirregular mannerr Italy and Malta aalmost stopped. Italy reported a 96% drop in arrivvals in the firrst three mon nths of 0 compared with 2009. In 2009, the number of detections o of irregular b border crosssings in 2010 14 Greeece accounteed for 75% off the EU total. At th he end of 2 2010, Greecee reported around a 90% of all detecctions of irreegular crossiings at 155 external EU land d, sea and air borders, although deetections felll since the deployment d of the 16 T develop pment is the result of thee accelerating shift in miggration RABIT teams by FRONTEX. This n. routes from the ccentral to the eastern Meediterranean Figure 1: Numb ber of detecttions betweeen border cro ossing points, by major m migration ro oute, since 2008 Sourrce: FRONTEX X, 2010 A geeneral shift ffrom sea to land borderrs can also b be observed. In the third d quarter off 2010, abou ut 29,000 detections of irrregular bord der crossingss were reporrted at the exxternal land border of th he EU, which h constitutess the highest number off detections at the land border sincee early 2008 8 when FRONTEX started collecting data. Of theese detectio ons, 63% were reported at the 17 Greeek external land borderr with Turkeey. Between n the secon nd and third d quarter off 2010, migrration movem ments have doubled d at th he Greek‐Turrkish land border. Leavving aside the migration from Albaniia, for the ovverwhelmingg majority off arrivals Greeece is not tthe final desstination. Maany try to reeach other EU Member SStates, where family members, frien nds or peoplee they know can supportt them. Somee persons plaan however to t settle in G Greece, given n that regulaar migration channels cattering for thee formal labo our market aare not sufficcient to 14 FR RONTEX, Generall Report 2009, p. 11, 1 available at: htttp://www.fronteex.europa.eu/gfx//frontex/files/gen neral_report/20009/gen_rep_2009__en.pdf. 15 FR RONTEX, Current migratory situatiion in Greece (upd date 29 Novembeer 2010), p. 1, avaailable at: htttp://www.fronteex.europa.eu/dow wnload/Z2Z4L2Zyyb250ZXgvZW4vZGVmYXVsdF9tdW Wx0aWxpc3RhX3B BsaWtvdy8xMzY//situation _o of_irregular_migrration_in_greece__29_11_2010.pdf. 16 Seee FRONTEX New ws Release, 12 Jan nuary 2011 at http p://www.frontex..europa.eu/rabit__2010/news_releeases/. 17 FR RONTEX, FRAN Quartely, Issue 3, July‐September 20010, p. 10, available at: w www.frontex.euro opa.eu/situation_at_the_external__border/art22.htm ml. 12