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Greece must face punishment over abuses against migrants, Frontex official says Athens has 13 open cases into alleged human rights violations involving migrants, the single largest number of incidents across the bloc.

April 24, 2025 Nektaria Stamouli and Tim Röhn

(Politico) The European Union’s border agency is so frustrated with Greece’s repeated pushbacks of migrants that it is considering calling on Brussels to bring disciplinary proceedings against Athens, a Frontex official told POLITICO and WELT. Fundamental Rights Officer Jonas Grimheden, who makes […]

‘The European Qu’ran’: Falsifying European history with funding from the EU European identity is built on Islam and the Quran qualifies as 'cutting-edge scientific research,' according to the European Union.

April 16, 2025 Hélène de Lauzun

(European Conservative) The European Union is preparing to provide €10 million in funding for a scientific research project aimed at highlighting the contribution of the Qu’ran and the Muslim religion to European civilisation. The influence of the Muslim Brotherhood is evident behind […]

EU border agency says stopping migration is impossible

February 7, 2024 Gabriela Baczynska

(Reuters) Irregular immigration to the EU from Western Africa rose more than ten times on the year in January, according to the bloc’s Frontex border agency, which expects overall arrivals to grow in 2024 and says halting the movement of people completely […]

Frontex boss says Med migrant crossings at record level

May 12, 2023 Magdalena Paciorek

(AFP) Migrant crossings through the Mediterranean have reached unprecedented levels as increasingly organised smuggling gangs are producing makeshift boats much more easily, the head of the European Union’s border agency told AFP. In the first four months of 2023, the numbers of […]

EU’s border agency deliberately, systematically cooperated with Greece in pushbacks: report EU Commission’s vice president acted more for Greece than as bloc’s senior official, says German magazine Der Spiegel

July 28, 2022 Ahmet Gencturk

(Anadolu) The European Union’s border agency, Frontex, has deliberately and systematically cooperated with Greece in illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers to Turkish waters, a German magazine reported Thursday. Findings of an investigation by OLAF, the bloc’s anti-fraud agency, on the dimension of […]

Greece says hundreds of migrants stopped from crossing Aegean

May 23, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Greece said on Monday it had prevented around 600 migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into its territorial waters from neighbouring Turkey, in the largest attempted entry this year. A spokesman for the Greek coastguard said five sail boats and four […]

Erdogan opponents allege Greek border pushbacks

May 12, 2022 Marina Rafenberg

(AFP) For years Greece has been accused of illegally pushing asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a practice it strenuously denies. But according to witnesses and rights groups, the summary deportations are also hitting vulnerable opponents of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Kurdish writer […]

EU lawmakers delay approval of border agency’s budget over illegal pushbacks European Parliament postpones decision due to ongoing investigation against Frontex

May 4, 2022 Agnes Szucs

(Anadolu) EU lawmakers on Wednesday withheld approval on the EU border and coast guard agency’s (Frontex) budget over “illegal pushbacks of migrants” as they signed off [on] the bloc’s budget for 2020. With 492 votes in favor, 145 against, and eight abstentions, […]

EU border agency boss quits over alleged mismanagement

April 29, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Fabrice Leggeri, a figurehead for impenetrable European frontiers who was frequently accused of tolerating illegal “pushbacks” of migrants, has resigned as head of Frontex, the border agency said Friday. The Frontex board made the announcement after holding a two-day meeting “in […]

EU agrees to help Cyprus manage record migrant influx

February 21, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AFP) Cyprus struck a deal Monday with the European Union to help it handle a large migrant influx to the divided Mediterranean island, which Nicosia says is the highest per capita in the EU. The agreement will make it easier for Cyprus […]

EU border agency to help Cyprus with migrant repatriations

February 16, 2022 Unlisted Author

(AP) The chief of the European Union’s Frontex border agency said Wednesday that the repatriation of migrants is Cyprus’ “most urgent need” and that his organization is ready to facilitate flights to return home people who had asylum claims rejected in Cyprus. […]

Cyprus minister pins blame for migration ’emergency’ on Turkey

February 13, 2022 Frank Zeller

(AFP) The small Mediterranean island of Cyprus has an outsized problem with irregular migration, says the interior minister of the EU member state located closest to the Middle East. “For us, this is a state of emergency,” Nicos Nouris told AFP, adding […]

EU should prepare for more migrant crises: border chief

November 17, 2021 Dario Thuburn

(AFP) The European Union should be prepared for more migrant crises like the ones on the Greece-Turkey and Poland-Belarus borders, the head of the EU’s border agency told AFP in an interview. Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri also said the agency was working […]

France calls for an EU-UK treaty on migrants

October 9, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AFP) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Saturday called for the start of negotiations for a migration treaty between the European Union and Britain. Darmanin also urged the British government to “uphold its promise” to finance the fight against the illegal immigrants […]

Poland warns potential migrants Belarus border is closed

October 5, 2021 Monika Scislowska

(AP) The government of Poland is working to warn potential migrants that the country’s border with Belarus is sealed and is not a passage into the European Union, a deputy foreign minister said Tuesday. Poland’s diplomats in Middle Eastern and African countries […]

On Belarus border, EU guards patrol amid migrant ‘crisis’

July 20, 2021 Marielle Vitureau

(AFP) With a pair of binoculars, a German police officer working for the EU border agency Frontex scans an empty field crossed by the Belarus-Lithuania border on the lookout for migrants. The Baltic EU member state has seen more than 2,000 arrivals […]

EU border agency to police Lithuania-Belarus frontier from next week

July 19, 2021 Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans

(Reuters) European Union border agency Frontex will deploy 60 border guards with helicopters and vehicles to Lithuania’s frontier with Belarus next week, after a surge in migrants crossing illegally, which the EU says has been orchestrated by Minsk. In response to EU […]

Lithuania, EU say Belarus using refugees as ‘political weapon’

July 12, 2021 Robin Emmott, Sabine Siebold and Andrius Sytas

(Reuters) Lithuania’s foreign minister and the EU’s top diplomat accused Belarus on Monday of using illegal migrants as a political weapon to put pressure on the European Union because of the bloc’s sanctions on Minsk. Belarus was flying in migrants from abroad […]

EU border agency to ‘significantly’ step up Lithuania help

July 11, 2021 Jari Tanner

(AP) The European Union’s border agency is pledging to “significantly” step up its support to Lithuania in the coming days “due to the growing migratory pressure at Lithuania’s border with Belarus” that the Baltic nation is trying to contain. The decision by […]

Migration lawsuit launched against EU’s border agency

May 25, 2021 Lorne Cook

(AP) Human rights lawyers said Tuesday that they have launched legal action against the European Union’s border and coast guard agency at the bloc’s top court, accusing Frontex of violating the rights of people trying to seek asylum and other breaches of […]

Greece to EU: Don’t let countries use migrants as leverage

May 21, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) Greece’s prime minister says Europe should be “very, very strict” when dealing with countries that he said are seeking to use migrants and refugees as a means of pressuring the European Union. Speaking Friday during a meeting in Athens with the […]

Turkish Coast Guard hassles Frontex forces

May 4, 2021 Unlisted Author

(Kathimerini) “Very serious” incidents that violated international regulations reportedly took place on April 26 and 27 involving vessels of the Turkish Coast Guard and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex. Kathimerini understands that the incidents occurred off the eastern Aegean […]

EU worried by shooting incidents near Turkey-Greece border

March 12, 2021 Unlisted Author

(AP) The European Union’s top migration official expressed concern Friday about a spike in the number of shooting incidents on the Turkish side of the country’s land border with Greece near where EU border officers have been patrolling. At least 3 incidents […]

Probe into EU border agency leaves some questions unanswered

March 4, 2021 Lorne Cook

(AP) An inquiry into claims that the European Union’s border and coast guard agency was involved in illegally pushing back migrants has found no link to Frontex in any of the incidents but has been unable to establish what happened in five […]

EU watchdog opens investigation into border agency Frontex Organization faces allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks.

January 11, 2021 Jacopo Barigazzi

(Politico) The EU’s anti-fraud watchdog, OLAF, has opened an investigation into Frontex, the bloc’s border agency, over allegations of harassment, misconduct and migrant pushbacks, according to four EU officials. OLAF investigators have been interviewing members of the Warsaw-based agency “since the start […]

EU border chief wins support amid migrant pushback reports

December 9, 2020 Lorne Cook

(AP) The EU’s top migration official confirmed Wednesday that she retains confidence in the embattled head of Frontex, amid pressure on the bloc’s border and coastguard agency for an independent investigation of allegations it was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants. Asked […]

EU border chief urged to quit over migrant pushback claims

December 1, 2020 Lorne Cook and Tarik El Barakah

(AP) European Union lawmakers lashed out Tuesday at the head of Frontex over allegations that the border and coast guard agency helped illegally stop migrants or refugees entering Europe, calling for his resignation and demanding an independent inquiry. The lawmakers grilled Executive […]

Migrant crossings into Europe spiked in May: report The number of migrants seeking to enter the EU tripled in May compared to the previous month. It's a sign traffic along Europe's migration routes is picking up again after a lull brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 14, 2020 Unlisted Author

(Deutsche Welle) European border agency Frontex recorded a sharp increase in migrants hoping to enter the EU last month, German media reported Sunday. The spike comes after coronavirus lockdowns and widespread border closures cut the number of potential asylum-seekers able to reach […]