Several MEPs asked the European Commission for explanations on 7 July about the transfer of migrants’ personal data by Frontex to the police cooperation agency Europol, as revealed in an investigation published by the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN).
According to BIRN, Frontex, then still headed by Fabrice Leggeri, apparently sought at the end of 2021 to extend a data collection and transfer programme with Europol and minimise obligations to respect personal data protection,...