EU wants to beef up border agency to 30,000 staffers

The European Union executive on Tuesday called for an increase in the number of employees of the bloc's border agency Frontex to 30,000 people, as part of a strategy that aims to protect Europe from hybrid attacks, cybercrime, organized crime and terrorist threats.

EU wants to beef up border agency to 30,000 staffers

European Commission proposal would increase force of EU border patrols under Frontex.

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"This sends a clear and unequivocal message to the criminal organizations operating on either side of the border that we will not tolerate illegal incursions" said a Border Patrol spokesman

Frontex Director Hans Leijtens is considering cutting off funding to the Greek coast guard if it continues to carry out pushbacks in the Aegean Sea. "I'm still receiving reports of irregularities in some member states," Europe's top border guard told Der Spiegel magazine. First, he will stipulate more clearly than before in the joint operational plans of Frontex and local security authorities that migrants' rights must be protected. "Then I'll h…

The European Union executive on Tuesday called to increase the head count of the bloc's border agency Frontex to 30,000 staffers, in a strategy seeking to protect Europe from hybrid attacks, cybercrime, organized crime...