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2010-06-24
Frontex and CEPOL forge stronger strategic links

Today, Ilkka Laitinen, Frontex Executive Director, and Ferenc Bánfi, CEPOL Director met at CEPOL Secretariat to discuss the strategy for closer future cooperation between Frontex and CEPOL. more
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2010-05-20
European Day for Border Guards

On May 25th, the first European Day for Border Guards event will take place in Warsaw, in honour of the fifth anniversary of the foundation of Frontex. The event will feature a conference on “The future of the border management in Europe including the rol more
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2010-03-17
Frontex expresses concern over incident involving guest officers in Mitilini

Frontex has written to the national authority of the five border guard officers involved in an incident in Mitilini, Lesvos to express its concern at their off-duty behaviour. The officers, who had been seconded to Frontex joint operation POSEIDON 2010 h more
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2010-02-18
Commissioner Malmström visits Frontex

Today Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs visited Frontex Headquarters in Warsaw. more
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2010-02-05
Greece will host first Frontex Operational Office

Piraeus will host Frontex Operational Office further to a decision taken yesterday by Frontex Management Board. This will be the first of offices that are supposed to provide regionally-based support for Frontex coordinated activities more
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2009-12-10
International Law of the Sea - Seminar organised by Frontex

On 10 December, Frontex organised a seminar on the challenges of common interpretation of the International Law of the Sea. The event was hosted by the Frontex Partnership Academy of the Guardia di Finanza in Gaeta, Italy. more
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2009-07-02
Frontex signs Working Arrangement with CEPOL

Ilkka Laitinen, Frontex Executive Director and Ulf Göransson, Director of the European Police College (CEPOL) have signed a Working Arrangement. more
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2009-06-29
Frontex’s cooperation with ICMPD enters into force

On 27 June, Frontex established a basis for cooperation with the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) via an exchange of letters between Ilkka Laitinen and Gottfried Zurcher more
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2009-06-18
Frontex signs Working Arrangement with Montenegro

Warsaw, 18 June 2009 - Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen and the Deputy Chief of Police, Head of Border Police Sector Vesko Vukadinovic, signed a Working Arrangement between Frontex and the Republic of Montenegro. more
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2009-05-29
Frontex signs Working Arrangement with Interpol

On 27 May 2009, in San Marino, Frontex Executive Director Ilkka Laitinen and the Secretary General of INTERPOL Ronald K. Noble signed a working arrangement on cooperation. more
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2009-05-11
Frontex organises the first course for Schengen evaluators

The task of the Schengen Evaluation Working Group (SCHEVAL) is to assess how the existing signatories of the Schengen Treaty comply with the rules and evaluate whether the member states are sufficiently prepared to implement them. more
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2009-04-29
Frontex and the US Department of Homeland Security

In the margins of the EU-US Troika on Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Meeting held in Prague on 28 April, Frontex and the US Department of Homeland Security signed a Working Arrangement on the establishment of operational cooperation. more
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2009-04-23
Heads of Coast Guard Services in Warsaw

Representatives of 22 European countries, European institutions and bodies met for two days in Warsaw to boost co-operation of coast guard services from the EU and Schengen Associated Countries. more
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2009-04-03
Working arrangement between Frontex and BiH

On 3 April 2009 Minister of Security, Tarik Sadović and the Executive Director of Frontex, Ilkka Laitinen signed the working arrangement between Frontex and Bosnia and Herzegovina. more
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2009-03-27
Lessons to be learned after the LIMES demos

On 26 March 2009, Frontex representatives attended a LIMES end Users engagement Workshop in Paris. LIMES (Land and Sea Monitoring for Environment and Security) is an Integrated Project co-funded by the European Commission more
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2009-03-12
Seventh ESRIF Plenary Session in Berlin

On 9 and 10 March 2009, Frontex representative attended the 7th Plenary session of the European Security Research and Innovation Forum (ESRIF), held in Berlin. more
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2009-02-27
Conference on Trafficking in Human Beings

On 24 February the Executive Director of Frontex, Ilkka Laitinen, attended the Final Ministerial Conference on Guidelines for the Collection of Data on Trafficking in Human Beings which took place in Vienna more
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2009-02-20
Working Arrangement between Frontex and Albania signed

On 19 February 2009 Director of the Albanian State Police, Ahmet Prençi and the Executive Director of Frontex, Ilkka Laitinen signed the working arrangement between Frontex and the Albanian State Police. more
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2009-02-19
Working Arrangement with Serbia concluded

On 17 February 2009 the Working Arrangement between Frontex and the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Serbia was signed in Belgrade. more
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2009-02-18
Second exercise of Northern Lights 2008 completed

The second exercise of the Pilot Project Northern Lights 2008 took place between 9 and 13 February 2009 in Warsaw, Poland. The main objective of the exercise was to exchange experiences more
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