As the European Council meets to adopt strategic
guidelines that will shape future EU policies in the area of freedom,
security and justice, “Incompatibility between Frontex’s activities and
the full respect of fundamental rights persists,” reaffirms the
Frontexit Campaign. Frontexit is publishing today an overview of the
information it has collected about the Agency since the campaign’s
launch in March 2013.
We trust that the new guidelines will take into
account the tragic death of 366 migrants off the coast of Lampedusa in
October 2013, as well as the recommendations made by the Task Force for
the Mediterranean, responsible for devising policies to avoid future
deaths at sea. However, and despite the fact that dangerous crossings
across the Mediterranean have been prompted by the reduction of legal
entry avenues in the EU, the solution put forward by the Task Force
seems to be oriented towards more, rather than less, border control.
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Read the Overview of the information collected by the campaign here
