“The Committee on Civil Liberties and the European Parliament will continue to fulfil our duty to scrutinise the appointment of the new Executive Director and the proper functioning of the agency”, the MEP said.
For her part, the Chair of the LIBE Committee’s enquiry group on Frontex, Lena Düpont (EPP, Germany), said on 29 April that “Frontex is facing the greatest challenges due to the considerable expansion of its tasks and powers as well as the geopolitically tense situation at our external borders”.
“The extension of the mandate and tasks inevitably leads to administrative difficulties. More and clearer guidance from the European Commission is needed in this regard”, she said in a statement. (Original version in French by Solenn Paulic)