Given legal endorsement in a record fast seven months, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, based on the former Frontex agency, was officially inaugurated on Thursday 6 October at the border crossing of Kapitan Andreevo along Bulgaria’s border with Turkey.
Bulgarian Prime minister Boyko Borissov, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and the new managing director of the agency, Fabrice Leggeri, launched the agency, which will boost the surveillance of the EU’s external...