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2010-12-13
Unaccompanied Minors in the Migration Process

"Unaccompanied Minors in the Migration Process" identifies some key trends, profiles and modi operandi in this increasingly visible and sensitive group. Unaccompanied minors are usually not detected at the EU external border but discovered to be unaccompanied at their final destination, often when they apply for asylum. more
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2010-12-07
Frontex RABIT Deployment to Greece Extended Until March 2011

Warsaw, December 7, 2010 — Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen signed a decision on December 3 authorising an extension of the Agency’s deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) to the Greek-Turkish land border. more
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2010-12-01
Operation Meteor Records Increased Irregular Migration at Bucharest Airport

Warsaw, December 1, 2010 — The Meteor 2010 Joint Operation at Bucharest’s Otopeni (Henri Coanda) International Airport in Romania came to an end on November 29. The Frontex-coordinated operation was launched on November 17 to counter irregular immigration more
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2010-11-30
Frontex estimates illegal border crossings on the Greek Turkish border have diminished by 44% by the end of November

ATHENS, 30 November 2010 – On the basis of operational data gathered during the deployment of the Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABIT 2010), Frontex estimates that at the end of November 2010 there has been an overall decrease of 43,7% in the number of more
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2010-11-19
Western Balkans Annual Risk Analysis 2010

Frontex has issued the first Annual Risk Assessment from the West Balkans Risk Analysis Network (WB-RAN), produced from analysis of available statistical data from the whole of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, additional information from participating WB-RAN countries and relevant Frontex-coordinated joint operations. Three distinct trends are apparent from the analysis. more
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2010-11-18
FRAN Quarterly | Q02 2010

Frontex Risk Analysis Netwrork (FRAN) report provides a regular overview of illegal migration at the EU external borders. more
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2010-11-17
Current situation at the external borders of the EU (Jan-Spt 2010)

The map describes the migratory situation at the external borders of the EU in January - September 2010, including the main entry routes of irregular migration into the European Union: West African route, via Canary islands, Central Mediterranean, including Italy and Malta, South Eastern European route (including Greek land and sea borders) as well as the Eastern land borders. more
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2010-11-05
Papoutsis, Besson, Malmström and Laitinen Visit RABIT Operational Area

Orestiada, November 5 — Greek Minister of Citizen Protection Christos Papoutsis, French Minister of Immigration Éric Besson, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström and Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen visit RABIT operation area more
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2010-10-29
Frontex to Deploy 175 Specialist Border Personnel to Greece

Five days after receiving a request from Greece for deployment of Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs), Frontex has finalised arrangements for human and technical resources to be deployed to the Greek-Turkish land border in the region of Orestiada more
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2010-10-26
Frontex Executive Director signs decision to deploy RABITs

Warsaw, 26 October – Today, Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen signed a decision to deploy Rapid Border Intervention Teams to Greece after a request from Greek authorities. more
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2010-10-25
Frontex deploys Rapid Border Intervention Teams to Greece

Yesterday at 22:49 Frontex received a request from the Greek Minister of Citizen Protection Christos Papoutsis to deploy Rapid Border Intervention Teams (RABITs) as well as operational means to increase the control and surveillance levels more
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2010-10-21
Frontex signs working arrangement with Canada

A delegation from the Canada Border Services Agency headed by its Executive Vice-President Mr. Luc Portelance visited Frontex today to sign a working arrangement with Frontex. more
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2010-10-18
Frontex Head Calls for More Powers to Detect and Prevent Human Trafficking

Ilkka Laitinen, Executive Director of Frontex, told the conference, “Towards a multidisciplinary approach to prevention of trafficking in human beings, prosecution of traffickers and protection of victims,” organised in Brussels by the Belgian Presidency more
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2010-10-01
Frontex Operational Office Opens in Piraeus

Frontex held an inauguration ceremony in Piraeus, Greece, on October 1 for the opening of its pilot Frontex Operational Office (FOO). The FOO represents the Agency’s first premises outside its Warsaw HQ as a pilot programme. more
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2010-09-14
Call for Expressions of Interest

Call for Expressions of Interest in demonstrating at Frontex R&D Green border workshop “Small UAVs and Fixed systems for Land border surveillance” more
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2010-08-02
Frontex signs seat agreement with Greece

An agreement to host the first pilot Frontex Operational Office (FOO) was signed today in Athens by Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen and Michalis Chrisochoidis – the Minister of Citizen Protection of Greece. more
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2010-07-09
FRAN Quarterly | Q01 2010

The Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) report covering the first three months of 2010 showed a significant drop in all indicators of irregular migration at the external borders of the EU. more
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2010-07-07
Irregular immigration hits new low in first quarter 2010, facilitator detections up 13%

The quarterly report by the Frontex Risk Analysis Network (FRAN) for the first three months of 2010 showed significant drops in all indicators of irregular migration at the external borders of the European Union. more
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2010-07-07
Situation at the External Borders 2008/2009

The map describes the migratory situation at the external borders of the EU in 2008/2009, including the main entry routes of irregular migration into the European Union: West African route, via Canary islands, Central Mediterranean, including Italy and Malta, South Eastern European route (including Greek land and sea borders) as well as the Eastern land borders. more
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2010-07-07
Extract from the Frontex Annual Risk Analysis Report (ARA 2010)

The Frontex Annual Risk Analysis report outlines the situation at the EU’s external borders in 2010 with an assessment of current and future trends in order to allow effective allocation of common resources. more
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