Frontex is in desperate need of border guards and equipment to cope with the recent influx of migrants (Photo: Daniel Belenyi)

Frontex in dire need of border guards

Migration

Rule of Law

by Nick Mathiason, Victoria Parsons and Ted Jeory, Brussels,

As Europe's refugee crisis intensifies, the EU border agency, Frontex, is suffering from a drastic shortage of border guards on the Greek islands, on the land border between Greece and Turkey, between Bulgaria and Turkey, and along the Hungarian border with Serbia, according to an investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (BIJ).

Five months after EU leaders increased Frontex's budget by €26.8 million to cope with t...