Meeting on 20 and 21 January, the Management Board of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontex, asked its executive director, Frenchman Fabrice Leggeri, to urgently implement measures to shed light on all incidents at external borders and to immediately hire 40 Fundamental Rights Monitors.
In particular, the Management Board requests that the Agency, by 26 February, clarifies several incidents at sea identified as possible pushbacks. At this stage, out of 13 incidents examined,...