TIRANA, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Albanian border police have taken additional measures along the border with Greece to stop the illegal migrants whose number has increased significantly, Albanian local media reported on Sunday.
In Devoll area, southeastern Albania, the police have stopped about 70 immigrants coming from Greece in the past two months.
According to the border police report, more and more immigrants use the Albanian territory as a transit to move further to European Union (EU) countries.
A few days ago, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama called for the help of European partners to prevent this phenomenon so that Europe does not experience the situation of 2015.
Meanwhile, the Director of the European Border Agency (Frontex) Fabrice Leggeri confirms the fact that Albania has entered the list of countries from which the illegal immigrants pass.
In an interview for Spiegel Online, Leggeri said in the northern part of Greece at the border with Albania, 45 Frontex officers will be deployed for the first time in order to prevent the influx of immigrants.
Leggeri declared that a new path is being followed by refugees from northern Greece, through Albania and Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia, called as the Balkan Coast Way.
According to Leggeri, the European Commission has proposed that Frontex should build a body of 10,000 coastal guards by 2027.
