Brussels, 13/03/2012 (Agence Europe) - European Ombudsman P. Nikiforos Diamandouros announced on Tuesday 13 March that he had opened an inquiry into how Frontex implements its fundamental rights obligations. Frontex is an EU agency based in Warsaw.
In 2009, the Charter of Fundamental Rights became legally binding on Frontex. Since then, a number of civil society organisations have questioned whether Frontex is doing enough to comply with the Charter, for example, in its deployment of EU...