Greece: EU Funded Securitisation of Camps, Legal Action Against Frontex Before CJEU as Greek PM and Leggeri Exchange Mutual Praise on Reduction of Arrivals
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Concrete walls and surveillance drones are among the amplified security measures set to be introduced in camps across Greek mainland and islands largely funded by the EU. Front-LEX, Progress Lawyers Network, and the Greek Helsinki Monitor have submitted a legal action against the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex at the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU). At a meeting in Athens on 21 May Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis and head of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri exchanged compliments over cooperation resulting in an 80 percent reduction of arrivals to Greece.
ATHENS Trying to deal with some 50,000 refugees and migrants six years after they began arriving, mostly through Turkey, Greece is erecting 3-meter high (9.8 feet) high concrete walls around mainland camps holding them - The National Herald
Athens, Greece - Parwana Amiri initially noticed the concrete wall she had built around a refugee camp in mainland Greece a few weeks ago in the morning.
Investigators have called for a criminal probe to be opened into officials at Bulgaria s interior ministry for alleged abuse of power .
The European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) accused it of using EU money to purchase 350 new all-terrain vehicles for the police.
OLAF said Bulgaria had violated the terms of the grant by buying second-hand sport utility vehicles (SUVs) instead.
It called for the European Commission to recover around €5.95 million. The Bulgarian Ministry of the Interior breached the terms of its grant agreement by using EU money to buy SUVs from older stocks instead of new all-terrain police cars, the agency said in a statement.