The EU border agency has failed to protect the human rights of asylum seekers, according to a damning European parliament report on the organisation. We think it would be sound if the management board would draw the same conclusion and start the search for a new executive director.”Once an obscure EU agency, Frontex has become a central pillar of EU border management. But the agency has come under growing scrutiny over its role in alleged pushbacks in the Aegean Sea, with dozens of human rights organisations calling for it to be abolished. “One of the problems,” she said, was that Frontex was conceived as a security rather than a rights organisation. EU member states found the agency reassuring: “[They] talk about threats at the border.

Source: The Guardian July 15, 2021 06:00 UTC