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		</div><p>The number of migrants arriving in Europe through Spain has more than doubled this year, the head of the European Union&#8217;s border agency said.</p>
<p>Frontex director Fabrice Leggeri said &#8220;we have registered almost 14,000 arrivals in Spain, arriving from Morocco, from the western part of the Maghreb&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Leggeri said it &#8220;means that the figures were multiplied by more than 2.5 this year&#8221; compared with the same January-August period last year.</p>
<p>He said this included sea and land arrivals, via Spain&#8217;s enclaves in northern Africa &#8211; Ceuta and Melilla &#8211; and that most migrants were Moroccan citizens.</p>
<p>He said arrivals to Europe from Libya through the central Mediterranean have dropped but could not say whether the rise in Spain was due to tougher migrant controls around Libya.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Frontex has no indication of such displacement,&#8221;</i> he said.</p>
<p>Despite the increase, the Frontex chief said the route through Spain remains only the third most popular transit route for migrants.</p>
<p>The route via Libya across the Mediterranean to Italy remains the busiest, with more than 100,000 people having entered Europe that way so far this year.</p>
<p>The second most popular route for migrants is crossing from Turkey into Greece, which has seen about 20,000 people so far this year.</p>
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