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Irregular border-crossings halved, EU commission says

04.06.13 @ 09:28

... EU financial support, as well as to additional aid from Frontex, the European Asylum Support Office or the EU police agency ...

UN says EU border policy harms human rights

31.05.13 @ 09:29

... in Italy and Greece, officers from the EU border agency Frontex are allowed access to detained migrants within 48 hours of ... be entitled to EU financial support and additional aid from Frontex, the European Asylum Support Office or the EU police agency ...

Irregular migrant numbers to EU drop by half

19.04.13 @ 09:21

... ) – a human rights watchdog in Strasbourg – in early April said Frontex lacks transparency, “unclear responsibility and accountability, and lack of democratic ... the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee has since requested Frontex improve its search and rescue operations and has docked almost ...

EU border agency keen to expand Mediterranean Sea surveillance

19.03.13 @ 09:25

... . It networks together member states and Frontex. It will not include personal data, says Beugels. Frontex set up Eurosur’s communication network ... we called multi-purpose operations,” Izabella Cooper, Frontex’s spokeswoman, told reporters. Cooper said Frontex is expanding its cooperation with other organisations ...

AgendaItalian mess dominates this WEEK

01.03.13 @ 17:52

... will hear from the head of the EU border agency Frontex. They will also discuss developments in Hungary, where the Conservative ...

EU proposes tighter border control bill

28.02.13 @ 21:29

... the first place,” said Vermeulen. The EU-border patrol agency Frontex may use anonymised data for research purposes. Access by the ...

InvestigationFrontex chief looks beyond EU borders

14.01.13 @ 08:29

... -called "common pre-frontier intelligence picture [CPIP]." "This is where Frontex is due to arrange the delivery and the production of ... Saab event was Erik Berglund, who heads capacity building at Frontex. He noted that the EU agency is launching a pilot ...

InvestigationIstanbul: smuggler capital for EU-bound migrants

07.01.13 @ 07:56

... to enter Turkey and then to go to the EU. Frontex, the EU border control agency in Warsaw, says 18,000 ...

InvestigationLand border sealed, Greek police chief says

27.12.12 @ 08:39

... staff from the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency, Frontex. From his modest office at the police headquarters, Syritoudis oversees ...

InvestigationFortress Europe: a Greek wall close up

21.12.12 @ 09:19

... are pushing information that should be shared," said Erik Berglund, Frontex director of capacity building, at a seminar in November. The ... . Eurosur will improve cooperation between EU member states and the Frontex border control agency," said Dutch Liberal MEP Jan Mulder, who ...

Balkan visa-free regime under scrutiny

06.12.12 @ 09:29

... peaked in May, says the EU's border control agency, Frontex. A safe-guard clause in the visa regulation can waive ...

Migrants set fire to Greek detention centre

24.11.12 @ 22:01

... , the Greek military, and the EU's border control agency, Frontex. "In July 2012 we had 6,500 illegal migrants who ...

EU border chief: 23,000 lives saved last year

11.10.12 @ 19:48

... power vacuum filled by lawlessness. Fundamental rights on Frontex agenda For its part, Frontex, the EU's Warsaw-based border guard agency ... EU border management, on sea surveillance in Frontex operations. Under the amended text, Frontex-supervised guards are free to hand people on ...

TickerGreece creates additional asylum reception centres

18.09.12 @ 09:37

... efforts at sea with the EU's border-control agency, Frontex.

Greece to deport undocumented migrants

07.08.12 @ 16:40

... Support Office (Easo) and the EU's border control agency, Frontex, in order to support the Greek government with the deployment ...

Greece spooked by Syrian refugees

02.08.12 @ 18:13

... border authorities in member states and to the European Commission "Frontex is not involved in co-ordination, management of [the] additional ... with member states, other member states bring assistance coordinated by Frontex but it does not change the command and control chain ...

Lack of funding may force Syrian refugees into Europe

31.07.12 @ 18:05

... not let this happen," said EU aid commissioner Kristalina Georgieva. Frontex, the EU's border agency, says some 715 Syrian refugees ...

Refugees in Greece smuggled into Europe

26.06.12 @ 17:56

... sense of hopeless is now a common currency among refugees. Frontex and the Greek maintain a focus on the Turkish Greek ...

Hawkish step on EU borders outrages MEPs

08.06.12 @ 09:26

... into Greece from the Turkish border has also raised concern. Frontex, the EU border agency, detected 55,000 attempted crossings into ...

Cyprus worried about potential Syrian refugees

29.05.12 @ 21:32

... last year according to the EU's border control agency, Frontex. The weekend massacre in Houla in western Syria on Friday ...

Bulgarian resources dominate Greek border assistance

22.05.12 @ 19:54

... have bilateral agreements with Greece while others work only with Frontex or both. Specialised tracking dogs, mobile thermo vision systems, helicopters ... experts, Finland provided four border guard dogs. For its part, Frontex claims the border is under control but that attempted border ...

Greece struggling to manage asylum seekers

16.05.12 @ 17:42

... Italy, says the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency Frontex. Previously, most entered from Albania but detections dropped when the ... . Austerity measures, says Frontex, is increasing disparities between member states in their capacity to perform border controls. Frontex also claims budget cuts ...

EU-funded consortium unveils border-control robot

10.05.12 @ 20:12

... front of a hundred-or-so people, including officials from Frontex, the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency, Polish ministers ... by way of new technology for all its work, with Frontex interested primarily in using the sensors, but on stationary platforms ...

Greece opens first migrant detention centre

30.04.12 @ 09:28

... 12.5km-long strip of land with Turkey. According to Frontex, the EU’s border agency, some 6,000 people a ...

Asylum seekers flock to EU safe haven

26.03.12 @ 09:29

... the most part patrolled by Greek authorities with assistance from Frontex, the EU's border agency. In February, the Greeks started ... . In January, the figure dropped to 2,800 according to Frontex. Many come from Afghanistan, trekking their way across Turkey before ...

OpinionBeing fair to Turkey is in the EU's interest

12.03.12 @ 15:18

... is linked to particular migratory pressure, particularly coming from Turkey.” Frontex, the EU’s border agency, faces an enormous challenge. Left ... for either side. More importantly, Turkey should begin working with Frontex to reduce illegal migration into Greece. Here progress could be ...

TickerLess irregular migrants crossing to Greece

09.03.12 @ 10:31

... ,000 to 500 a week since September, according to a Frontex report presented to EU justice ministers meeting Thursday. “The report ...

EU firms join gold rush on drones

17.02.12 @ 09:16

... crowds in the 2012 Olympics, while EU border control agency, Frontex, on 9 February test-flew an Israeli-made surveillance drone ... by? Who will protect her?" The head of research at Frontex, Edgar Beugels, said he is unsure if UAVs will patrol ...

Greeks build fence to ward off asylum seekers

07.02.12 @ 19:19

... part a 180-kilometre-long river patrolled in part by Frontex, the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency. Near the ... dead on the riverbank. All had apparently died from hypothermia, Frontex said. Turkey's visa-free regime with some countries also ...

MEPs want budget increase for 2012

06.10.11 @ 09:28

... MEPs, who want the budget for the EU border agency Frontex to be beefed up by €25 million, money they say ...

EU complicit in Greek abuse of migrants, watchdog says

21.09.11 @ 19:00

... would prolong his detention. Frontex chief Ilkka Leitinen declined any responsibility for the detentions in Greece. "Frontex fully respects and strives for ... also warned against following the HRW recommendation to suspend the Frontex mission until Greek authorities can provide decent facilities. "We continue ...

Austria and Hungary seek EU help on human trafficking

20.09.11 @ 18:22

... more co-operation among member states, the EU border agency Frontex and the bloc's police co-operation body Europol aimed ... to the area to perform checks on highways and trains. Frontex is also aware of the situation and "assessing" if supplementary ...

Commission pushes for 'europeanisation' of border controls

15.09.11 @ 09:28

... , the EU commission and the bloc's border control agency Frontex, would organise snap checks of the 25 members of the ...

EU border agency gets extra powers

13.09.11 @ 17:39

... full respect of fundamental rights and improve the ability of Frontex to support member states more efficiently and more independently," EU ... them "it is hard for migrants to differentiate between official Frontex operations and national border operations", said Philip Amaral from the ...

EU agrees to boost border agency's powers

23.06.11 @ 09:28

... governments, the European Parliament and the European Commission will allow Frontex to buy or lease its own equipment - such as helicopters ... link between migration and security is further strengthened by giving Frontex "the possibility to transfer personal data to Europol or other ...

OpinionThe battle for Schengen: More Europe in the next decade

21.06.11 @ 09:04

... to create an additional mechanism, possibly on the basis of Frontex, in order to provide an enhanced presence in the neuralgic ...

Border checks to be allowed only under strict EU criteria

04.05.11 @ 17:38

... 's the member states who evaluate themselves. But we need Frontex, the European Commission, perhaps independent experts too," EU home affairs ...

OpinionDying to leave Libya

04.05.11 @ 11:27

... stepped up sea patrols by the EU border control agency Frontex in the Mediterranea - all are based on the 'keep them ... these efforts with technical and financial assistance, bilaterally and through Frontex. Ensure access to protection in Europe Both economic migrants and ...

Greek border successes focus attention on Bulgaria

03.05.11 @ 13:59

... the front line between November 2010 to March 2011. Another Frontex operation - Poseidon Land 2011 - will run on the Greek-Turkish ... the Greece's reception centres. Bulgaria As well as the Frontex missions, the series of recent revolutions in northern Africa and ...

FocusEU-funded project to prompt intelligence-sharing

03.05.11 @ 10:51

... be a roomful of officials from the EU border agency Frontex, the EU crisis centre (SitCen), the EU satellite centre as ...

Barroso moots return of internal EU borders

02.05.11 @ 09:28

... in favour of strengthening the EU's joint border agency, Frontex. Against a backdrop of rising far-right political parties across ...

OpinionWho's punishing whom?

13.04.11 @ 09:52

... and the oversight role of the EU's borders agency, Frontex, look set to be boosted. And, of course, Germany is ...

EU intelligence bureau sent officers to Libya

12.04.11 @ 10:51

... Staff in Brussels, the EU Satellite Centre in Spain, the Frontex border control agency in Warsaw and the Europol joint police ...

AgendaThis WEEK in the European Union

11.04.11 @ 09:06

... . Ministers will also debate: giving the EU's border agency Frontex fresh counter-terrorism responsibilities; work on a new ID database ...

EU border agency keen to send back more Tunisians

09.04.11 @ 12:09

... commercial Tunisian airlines, not chartered flights. Laitinen explained that if Frontex had an informal "working arrangement" with Tunis it could facilitate ... debrief and screen migrants to identify suspected traffickers and terrorists. Frontex passes their personal data - such as names, physical descriptions, telephone ...

EU commission keen to set up new counter-terrorism office

31.03.11 @ 17:32

... pull together existing security agencies Cepol, Cosi, Eurojust, Europol and Frontex under EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gilles de Kerchove. "There ...

EU expands patrol mission around Lampedusa

25.03.11 @ 17:07

... pressure on Italy and the island of Lampedusa in particular, Frontex has widened the operational area of Joint Operation Hermes and ... in Sicily and southern Italy where any of the 20 Frontex experts are located. Italy could receive more financial aid under ...

Nato to enforce no-fly zone on Libya

25.03.11 @ 01:47

... promised to expand the Warsaw-based EU border control agency Frontex. They also agreed to give more resources to the Hermes ...

Tunisian migrant: EU treatment is 'shameful'

23.03.11 @ 12:57

... doctors and nurses in this field hospital." For its part, Frontex, the EU's Warsaw-based border control agency, is doing ... migrants from Lampedusa to other migrant camps in Italy where Frontex has personnel. The financial offer covers three centres in Sicily ...

Italy presses for Nato command of Libya war

22.03.11 @ 09:28

... help from the EU, other than the intelligence from the Frontex mission which has only a few people and assets," he ...