Status: 01/19/2023 5:44 p.m At his first press conference as the new Frontex boss, the Dutchman Leitjens promised an end to the pushbacks of migrants. He is aware that the EU border protection authority has lost a lot of trust. By Astrid Corall, ARD Studio Brussels Hans Leijtens has exchanged his uniform for a dark blue suit and tie. The former commander of the Dutch military police is the new director of the EU border protection agency Frontex. WDR logo...
No less than 330,000 irregular entries were recorded in 2022. The number of illegal immigrants in the European Union increased in 2022 by 64% compared to the previous year, reaching the highest level since 2016, announced this Friday the European Border Surveillance Agency, Frontex. 45% of irregular entries were recorded on the Western Balkan route.The number of affected Syrian nationals nearly doubled to 94,000. "This is the second consecutive year with a sharp increase in the number of irregular entries,"...
You can imagine the voice message that started it all still listen online. Baida S. is said to have taken her on August 9 on a small island in the Turkish-Greek border river Evros. The young Syrian was part of a group of asylum seekers stuck there in the sweltering summer heat because the Greek border guards would not let people into the country - more than two weeks earlier, an aid organization had forwarded a call for help to...
Of Caroline Meta BeiselOfficer Hans Leijtens has changed jobs many times. All two or three years accepts a new commitment. A man without stamina, one might think. media in his home country however say: That is because Leijtens is often asked when there is a difficult task to be accomplished. source site
Status: 12/20/2022 5:03 p.m The EU border protection agency Frontex, which has come under criticism due to several scandals, is getting a new executive director: the Dutch General Leijtens. He succeeds the retired Frenchman Leggeri. By Matthias Reiche, ARD Studio Brussels Hans Leitjens is commander of the Dutch military police, has served in Afghanistan, among other places, and has repeatedly criticized Frontex on the board of directors. The agency is at a crossroads, as the new executive director explained in...
Status: 12/16/2022 1:05 p.m This year significantly more refugees and migrants entered the EU without permission than in 2021. The EU border protection agency Frontex registered 308,000 irregular entries in the first eleven months of the year - an increase of 68 percent. Despite new fences and controversial cooperation to ward off migrants, illegal border crossings into the European Union have increased significantly in 2022. The EU border protection agency Frontex registered around 308,000 irregular entries into the EU in...
Status: 12/02/2022 8:27 p.m Two candidates are running to succeed Frontex boss Leggeri. The EU Parliament must make the election by the end of the year. It could become the directional decision. By Matthias Reiche, ARD Studio Brussels By the end of the year, the EU border protection agency Frontex is to have a new top management. The EU Parliament has to make the proposal, which is not uncomplicated because many members of parliament are rather skeptical about the agency....
Cooperation between the French authorities and Frontex will continue next year. Questioned before French senators on Thursday, Aija Kalnaja, the executive director of the European border surveillance agency confirmed that aerial surveillance will continue in 2023. This operation had been set up almost a year ago, at the following a shipwreck in the English Channel which claimed the lives of at least 27 migrants.The work of Frontex called into questionFrontex has been implicated in several journalistic investigations and in a...
Status: 10/18/2022 5:36 p.m The border protection agency Frontex is accused of having supported the illegal pushing back of refugees. That is why the EU Parliament has now refused to grant budgetary relief to the agency. By Matthias Reiche, ARD Studio Brussels In the end, with 345 to 284 votes, it was an unexpectedly clear vote against Frontex. It didn't help that EU Interior Commissioner Ylya Johansson once again campaigned for the border protection agency among parliamentarians: MDR logo Matthew...
08/31/2022, 16:16 3 min reading time For months, refugees have been reporting illegal Frontex pushbacks off the Greek coast. Now a Syrian is suing the organization. Border guards are said to have forced him back out to sea in a rubber dinghy – even though he had already arrived on Samos. The European border protection agency Frontex has been under criticism for months. Again and again, refugees and aid organizations report illegal pushbacks - i.e. the pushing back of migrants...
