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personal political choice. you were a french bureaucrat, then you went to brussels to run an eu agency, then you decided to enter partisan politics not very long ago, and you joined the national rally party. what was it about marine le pen�*s party that attracted you? well, in fact, as the former executive director of frontex, the european border and coastguard agency, i realised that at some point brussels and especially the european commission didnt want to properly control the ext...

fabrice leggeri. fabrice leggeri in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for the invitation. its great to have you on the show. lets start with your own personal political choice. you were a french bureaucrat, then you went to brussels to run an eu agency, then you decided to enter partisan politics not very long ago, and you joined the national rally party. what was it about marine le pen�*s party that attracted you? well, in fact, as the former executive director of frontex, the e...

its great to have you on the show. lets start with your own personal political choice. you were a french bureaucrat, then you went to brussels to run an eu agency, then you decided to enter partisan politics not very long ago, and you joined the national rally party. what was it about marine le pen�*s party that attracted you? well, in fact, as the former executive director of frontex, the european border and coastguard agency, i realised that at some point brussels and especially th...

Despite a nerve-racking buildup leading up to the vote and the final agreement to no one’s liking, the EU’s asylum and migration pact passed with a thin majority on certain parts of the package.

NGOs see the pact as pandering to the far-right.

Staff have abused refugees for talking in line, coughing, and not cleaning their rooms, the Border Violence Monitoring Network claims.

But while one would provide actual ‘relief’, for any crisis-stricken territory… where would the other leave tiny islands like Lampedusa - or Malta, if it comes to it

Agreement comes after years of wrangling in wake of 2015 crisis that saw more than one million people reach the bloc

Following years of debates, a political agreement on the EU-wide asylum reforms was finally reached on Wednesday (20 December).

The European Commission's self-declared policy of not doing any harm in Libya appears increasingly strained, following reports Frontex collaborated with the Tariq Bin Zeyad Brigade — a Libyan militia with ties to the Russian mercenary group Wagner.