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Frontex and pushbacks: Management Board decision setting up the working group to investigate 15 January 2021 The 'Management Board Working Group on Fundamental Rights and Legal and Operational Aspects of Operations' will be made up of representatives of Germany; Greece, Hungary, Norway, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, France, and the European Commission. On 26 November, the Frontex Management Board approved a decision setting up a working group to: "a) conduct inquiries in relation to the allegations of so-called pushbacks in the Eastern Mediterranean in 2020 and, where mandated by separate dec...

22 December 2020 An article produced for the Migration Control project, providing a critical overview of the role, powers and activities of EU border agency Frontex, from 2004 to the present. Brutal. Cruel. Inhumane. These are just some of the labels that have been applied to the EU’s migration and border control policies over the years, but they have done little to stop law-makers introducing new forms of surveillance, control and denial of access to European territory for people on the move. The establishment of EU border agency Frontex in May 2005 gave the EU and its member states a new ...