Frontex @Frontex@respublicae.eu

Aija Kalnaja, #Frontex Executive Director ai., joined @PrimeministerGR and Minister of Migration @nmitarakis in Athens for a presentation of the EU co-financed national programme for migration and home affairs funds

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615365159802789888

@fragdenstaat All members of the #EUStandingCorps learn during basic training about their obligation to report any suspected violations. Our officers at the external borders demonstrate each day that #fundamentalrights and border management go hand in hand

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615340609321209858

@fragdenstaat Each report of any possible violation is immediately transmitted to the #Frontex Fundamental Rights Office for evaluation and issuing of a potential Serious Incident Report

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615340454484090884

@fragdenstaat See something, say something – this is part of the #Frontex DNA. While performing our duties to safeguard the #EU external borders, all of us must report any suspected violations of fundamental rights

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615340398850842624

A delegation from the Austrian @BMI_OE led by Gerhard Karner, 🇦🇹 Federal Minister of the Interior, was at #Frontex to discuss the main challenges to EU’s border security and cross-border cooperation, in particular with the Western Balkan countries

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615333729890701312

@fragdenstaat Our officers at the external borders demonstrate each day that #fundamentalrights and border management go hand in hand

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615332318645817344

@fragdenstaat All members of the #EuStandingCorps learn during basic training about their obligation to report any suspected violations

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615332176219836418

@fragdenstaat Each report of any possible violation is immediately transmitted to the #Frontex Fundamental Rights Office for evaluation and issuing of a potential Serious Incident Report

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615332115943682048

@fragdenstaat See something, say something – this is part of the #Frontex DNA. While performing our duties to safeguard the #EU external borders, all of us must report any suspected violations of fundamental rights

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615332056967569409

RT @EUAsylumAgency: This year, the #EUAA is holding the Presidency of the EU’s Justice & Home Affairs Agencies Network #JHAAN.

Our priorities 👇

📌 #Digitalisation
📌 Implementation of the #EUGreenDeal
📌 Info provision mixed #migration
📌 #Cybersecurity
📌 Improving general awareness of #JHAAN

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1615296916543180800

🔶 The second highest increase took place on the Eastern Mediterranean route, with 42 800 irregular border crossings detected

🔷 Figures roughly doubled compared with 2022

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613822188259246081

🔷 145 600 crossings – almost half of all 2022 irregular entries – were reported on the Western Balkans route

🔶 This is the highest number of crossings reported on this route since 2015

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613821963171921920

📈 2022 saw the highest number of irregular border crossings since 2016

Europe faced unprecedented challenges at their external borders after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which caused record numbers of refugees arriving in the European Union

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613821658846081026

🆕 Situation at 🇪🇺 external borders in 2022:

🔶 Around 330 000 irregular border crossings in 12 months
🔶 64% increase from the previous year

Read more: https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/eu-s-external-borders-in-2022-number-of-irregular-border-crossings-highest-since-2016-YsAZ29

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613821462103597056

🇬🇷Fundamental Rights Officer Konstantinos Solkidis visited #Frontex for a series of meetings with Executive Director a.i. Aija Kalnaja and Fundamental Rights Officer @JGrimheden about our activities in Greece and the agency’s fundamental rights safeguards https://frontex.europa.eu/media-centre/news/news-release/greek-fundamental-rights-officer-visits-frontex-cJ8K6Z

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613557865888849920

Yesterday in Warsaw, #Frontex Deputy Executive Director Lars Gerdes and @IOMatEU Regional Director @HenriksonOla discussed closer collaboration in the area of returns 🇪🇺

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613481246260084736

Germany contributes significantly to 13 out of 16 Frontex joint operations.

15% of standing corps officers seconded long-term from EU countries come from Germany.
German vessels, patrol cars and other equipment are currently deployed to several Frontex operations

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613168270147981313

Today a delegation from @Bundestag 🇩🇪 is at #Frontex for a meeting with our management.

We discussed our shared goals and efforts in EU border management, as well as situation in 2022, current operations and strengthened fundamental rights framework

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1613168038005571585

Meet Christina, a return and escort officer from Greece working in Austria 🇬🇷 🇦🇹

Before joining the standing corps in 2021, Christina worked in the Hellenic Police, specialising in forced-return operations 👮‍♀️

Now, she coordinates a Frontex return team at @flughafen_wien 🛫

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Frontex/status/1611679035217657857