Topic - Frontex

Frontex (from French: Frontières extérieures for "external borders", legally: European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union) is the European Union agency for external border security. It is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the national border guards in ensuring the security of the EU's borders with non-member states. Frontex is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. - Source: Wikipedia

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This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The border and coast guard agency Frontex estimated that more than 50,300 attempts were made to enter the EU without authorization from January to May. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP, File)

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Newly appointed Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis speaks during a handover ceremony, in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' cabinet has been sworn in as his center-right New Democracy party had 40.55%, more than twice the opposition Syriza party's 17.84% on Sunday's elections. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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FILE - Fabrice Leggeri, Executive Director of Frontex, attends a meeting of EU Interior ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels on Dec. 2, 2019. The head of the European Union's border agency has offered to resign after allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks of migrants, according to the European Commission and a German Interior Ministry spokesperson. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)

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FILE - In this file photo dated Monday, April 8, 2019, a sign reading: &quot;State Border&quot; is attached to a fence at Hungary's border with Serbia near the village Asotthalom, Hungary. The European Union’s border control agency Frontex, said Wednesday Jan. 27, 2021, it is suspending operations in Hungary after the government in Budapest did not comply with a ruling by Europe’s highest court on the rights of asylum-seekers. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, FILE)

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European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson speaks during a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. The European Commission wants member states to reinforce external border controls and police cooperation to better protect the 27-nation bloc from extremist attacks. (Stephanie Lecocq, Pool via AP)

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FILE - In this Friday, Feb. 28, 2020 file photo, migrants arrive with a dinghy accompanied by a Frontex vessel at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing the Aegean sea from Turkey. The head of the European Union's border and coast guard agency faces a grilling on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 by EU lawmakers as pressure mounts over allegations that Frontex was involved in illegal pushbacks aimed at preventing migrants or refugees entering Europe through the Greek islands. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas, File)

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A migrant looks at shoes in a small street market near the Turkish-Greek border in Pazarkule, Edirne region, Turkey, Friday, March 13, 2020. Greek border units trying to stop crowds of migrants on Thursday from pushing their way in from Turkey have hit on a new defense against tear gas unleashed on them from the Turkish side of the frontier — monster fans. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

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Migrants from Bangladesh push a trolley with collected plastic items as they pass in front the Bank of Greece headquarters in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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In this Nov. 9, 2018 photo, unaccompanied minors from Morocco seeking shelter, stand outside a police station in Barcelona, Spain. Slouched on a bench at a Barcelona police station, five teenagers waited patiently on a recent Friday evening to find out where they would sleep that night: a shelter for young migrants or on that bench. (AP Photo/Renata Brito)

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Afghan men jump into the sea from a dock of Athens's main Piraeus port where hundreds of refugees and migrants live, Monday, June 20, 2016. The UN refugee agency marking World Refugee Day Monday June 20, said that on 2015, the world had 65.3 million people who had been forcibly displaced from their homes. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

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