Netherlands Presidency brokers agreement on European Border and Coast Guard (European Union)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. European Union). News item . 23-06-2016 . 13.05. The Netherlands Presidency of the Council of Europe and the European Parliament reached an agreement today on establishing a European Border and Coast Guard. The purpose of this agency will be to reinforce management of Europe's external borders ... The European Border and Coast Guard will have more powers and a broader mandate than its predecessor, Frontex ... (noodl. 34238232) ....

Dutch presidency reaches an agreement on European border controls and coast guards (Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. Ministry of Security and Justice of the Netherlands). News item . 22-06-2016 . 13.24. Dutch presidency and the European Parliament reached an agreement today on setting up European border controls and coast guards ... State Secretary Dijkhoff ... The European border controls and coast guards will be given more options and greater powers than their predecessor, Frontex ... The agency will also have access to its own resources ... (noodl....

National solutions are working (Government of the Republic of Hungary)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. Government of the Republic of Hungary) ... Referring to the most recent report by the EU border agency Frontex, he said that thanks to these national solutions 'the decline in the volume of migration had already occurred before the EU-Turkey deal entered into force'. The EU must be able to protect its own borders, Mr ... Mr. Bakondi also added the followers of the extreme Wahhabite branch of Sunni Islam to this list ... (noodl. 34243874) ....

History of LÉ Aisling recalled as patrol ship decommissioned

Edit The Irish Times 23 Jun 2016
When the Naval Service’s patrol ship LÉ Aisling was launched and commissioned in Cork harbour in 1980, its current captain Lieut Cdr Patrick Doherty was just eight years old ... Head of Irish Naval Service, who captured gun-running ships ... Recovery of 38 bodies ... Although its sister ship, LÉ Aoife, is working with the EU Frontex security operation in the Mediterranean under the Maltese flag, the Aisling is expected to be put up for sale ... ....

Joint statement by EU high officials on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2016 (Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Lebanon)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source ... Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Lebanon ... Brussels, 19 June 2016 ... (01) 569 400 - Fax ... We tripled our resources for search and rescue operations at sea last year, contributed to saving more than 240,000 people in the Mediterranean and we are disrupting criminal smuggling networks through Frontex joint operations, EUNAVFOR Med Operation Sophia and cooperation in the Aegean with the Turkish authorities and NATO....

Italy: Children Stuck in Unsafe Migrant Hotspot (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 23 Jun 2016
(Source. HRW - Human Rights Watch). (Milan) - Children as young as 12 and traveling without family members are kept for weeks in overcrowded and unsafe conditions in the Pozzallo migrant registration center in Sicily, Human Rights Watch said ... Officials from Frontex, the EU's external borders agency, work in the centers to assist Italian police with the initial registration, nationality screening interviews, and fingerprinting ... (noodl....

European Border and Coast Guard agreed (European Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The European Border and Coast Guard will combine a new reinforced Agency, building on the foundations laid by Frontex, with the ability to draw on a reserve pool of people and equipment ... The Commission said it back in May 2014, and I said it during my election campaign - that we need to strengthen Frontex significantly and develop it into a fully operational European Border and Coast Guard system....

European Border and Coast Guard agreed (European Union)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
The European Border and Coast Guard will combine a new reinforced Agency, building on the foundations laid by Frontex, with the ability to draw on a reserve pool of people and equipment ... The Commission said it back in May 2014, and I said it during my election campaign - that we need to strengthen Frontex significantly and develop it into a fully operational European Border and Coast Guard system....

Europe reins in new border force

Edit Financial Times 22 Jun 2016
Successor to Frontex unable to enter a member state without its consent ... ....

EU approves new border and coast guard

Edit Kathimerini 22 Jun 2016
The border and coast guard will be built up from the EU's border management agency Frontex ... [AP] ....

The Latest: EU approves new border and coast guard

Edit The Miami Herald 22 Jun 2016
The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local).. 1.55 p.m ... The Netherlands currently holds the EU's rotating presidency and chaperoned the border guard plan through. The border and coast guard will be built up from the EU's border management agency Frontex ... ---. 11 a.m ... ....

European Border and Coast Guard: Council confirms agreement with Parliament (Council of the European Union)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. Council of the European Union). On 22 June 2016, the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) confirmed, on behalf of the Council, the compromise text agreed with the European Parliament on the proposed regulation on the European Border and Coast Guard ... It will consist of an European Border and Coast guard agency (the current Frontex agency with expanded tasks) and national authorities responsible for border management....

European Border and Coast Guard boosts internal security (EPP Group)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. EPP Group). Artis Pabriks MEP said. 'As the EU continues to face an unprecedented migration crisis, we have moved as fast as we could to secure our borders. The EU is showing that it can deliver and the EPP Group is very much a driver behind these very concrete results ... The new European Border and Coast Guard Agency is the Frontex Agency but with expanded tasks ... (noodl. 34215835) ....
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