The coordinators of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties decided on Monday 5 December in the evening to put their trust in Dutchman Hans Leijtens to succeed Fabrice Leggeri as Executive Director of the Frontex Agency, several sources reported.
The Dutchman was slightly ahead of the current interim Director, Latvian Aija Kalnaja, who was seen by some as too representative of the ‘Leggeri era’. Some would also have liked her to decide to suspend Frontex activities in...