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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9419
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Frontex to oversee permanent mission for protecting Canary Islands

Brussels, 03/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - Commissioner for Immigration Franco Frattini announced on Wednesday that the European Border Agency (Frontex) will make its operations off the coast of West Africa permanent, in an effort to prevent the arrival of illegal immigrants in the Spanish Canary Islands in the Atlantic. In a public address to the European Parliament's legal affairs committee, Frattini declared that the “Canary Island mission will be a permanent one”. It will be up to the...

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