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CLOSE to 10,000 people were forcibly pushed back across the Aegean Sea to Turkey last year by the Greek coastguard and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), according to a human rights monitoring organisation. Mare Liberum, a German NGO which, until recently, monitored migrant and refugee crossings between Turkey and Greece using a ship of the same name, published a report today showing an “unprecedented escalation” of human rights violations in the Aegean Sea last year. Between March and December, the Greek and EU authorities were responsible for 321 pushbacks involving 9...

Szijjártó: Hungary, Poland Continue to Oppose Migrant Settlement Quotas Hungary and Poland continue to oppose “EU-sponsored migrant settlement quotas” because they believe repeated waves of migration pose a health risk in Europe, Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said in Warsaw on Thursday. The European Union faces two challenges, he said, referring to “the extremely slow acquisition of vaccines” and “the health risk implied by imminent waves of migration”, he told MTI after a one-day visit to Poland. Szijjártó slammed “efforts in the EU to impose mandatory m...

EU Border Agency Frontex Leaving Hungary Due to Rule of Law Violations Frontex, the European Union’s official border agency, announced on Wednesday that it is suspending its joint operations along the Hungarian border. Its reasoning is that Hungary is violating current rule of law norms, which the European Court of Justice has declared unlawful. Chris Borowski, Frontex’s spokesman, confirmed that the agency will not return until Hungary fully complies with the ruling of the Court of Justice of the European Union with regards to the treatment of asylum applicants, reports MTI. In its decis...

Advertisement Brussels: The European Union’s top migration official urged Hungary to change its approach to asylum policy and respect the rights of migrants after the bloc’s border agency, Frontex, took the unprecedented step of suspending operations in the country. Frontex said Wednesday, local time, that it is ceasing work in Hungary until the nationalist government brings its laws into line with a ruling by the EU’s top court in December, which said the country is denying people entering without authorization the right to apply for asylum and unlawfully detaining them in â�...

EU warns Hungary to change migrant policy as Frontex departs By LORNE COOK and JUSTIN SPIKEJanuary 28, 2021 GMT BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top migration official on Thursday urged Hungary to change its approach to asylum policy and respect the rights of migrants after the bloc’s border agency, Frontex, took the unprecedented step of suspending operations in the country. Frontex said Wednesday that it is ceasing work in Hungary until the nationalist government brings its laws into line with a ruling by the EU’s top court in December, which said the country is denying people e...