On Monday 1 April, the EU Council approved the interinstitutional agreement reached on 28 March on the new rules of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (see EUROPE B12224A14). The EU Council thus confirmed that the Agency will have a permanent corps of 10,000 border guards by 2027, composed of statutory and deployed staff from Member States, and that it will have enhanced capacity to assist Member States in the return of nationals of non-Member States in an irregular...