EU: Tracking the Pact: Plan for Frontex to deploy "vessels, surveillance equipment, and carry out operational tasks" in Senegal and Mauritania

 The EU's border agency is also due to open a "risk analysis cell" in Nouakchott, Mauritania, in autumn this year, according to documents obtained by Statewatch and published here. The two "action files" put heavy emphasis on the "prevention of irregular departures" towards the Canary Islands and increased cooperation on border management and anti-smuggling activities. Earlier this month, the Council authorised the opening of negotiations on status agreements that would allow Frontex to operate in both countries.

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New director, same tragedy

5 July 2022 – On Monday 4 July Frontex announced that its Management Board, made up of representatives of EU countries’ border authorities – mostly police officers active at national level -, has appointed Aija Kalnaja as Executive Director ad interim for the agency. This follows the resignation of former director Fabrice Leggeri in April 2022, amidst ongoing investigations by EU’s anti-fraud watchdog OLAF into Frontex‘s role concerning allegations of harassment, misconduct and illegal pushbacks. Kalnaja was already acting Executive Director since the departure of Leggeri.

Frontex-Aija Kanalja-Directeur par intérim

Démission de Fabrice Leggeri

Frontex : Protéger les frontières pour assurer la libre-circulation en Europe

La positon de Frontex :

Depuis le début de la crise migratoire, certains États membres se sont laissés tentés par le rétablissement des frontières. Une mauvaise idée, selon le directeur de Frontex, qui plaide pour une meilleure protection des frontières externes.

Fabrice Leggeri est directeur exécutif de l’Agence européenne de garde-frontières et de garde-côtes (Frontex).

Voir : EURACTIV

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