The European Border and Coastguard Agency celebrated its first anniversary on Friday 6 October, explains Frontex in a press release. Their managing director, Fabrice Leggeri, said the agency’s new mandate and increased resources were a strong, clear, political response not only to migration, but also to the security crisis the EU faced at its external borders in 2015 and 2016.
The new Frontex currently deploys 1,700 agents across the EU and its new mandate gives it 1,500 extra agents that...