Brussels, 05/10/2007 (Agence Europe) - Simon Busuttil, MEP (EPP-ED, Malta) confirmed on Wednesday 3 October that the European Parliament's budgetary committee had voted that day in favour of doubling the budget of the European border agency, Frontex, compared to 2007, i.e. a total of a little over €70 million for the year 2008. Busuttil, who had put the proposal forward on behalf of his group, welcomed this “political signal” sent to Malta and the other member states of the southern...